Red & Dslr...

[Jannard]

Here is a quick comparison of Build 16 RED ONE and a popular professional DSLR, the Canon 1D MKIII. I picked the 1D MKIII because it is the newest, highest quality Canon with an APS size sensor. I have cropped and scaled (slightly) the Canon to match the RED 2:1 format. I open the Canon file in Adobe RAW and opened the blacks because Adobe crushed them on open. Then I matched the two together (as best as possible) without inducing any weirdness. I have been doing this stuff a long time, so I am comfortable in the process. I encourage all of you to do similar tests on your own.

I used a RED 50-150mm zoom and the Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM zoom (newest version). Both were shot at ISO 320 and f5.6. I think I have successfully deleted the metadata, so that won't help you.

Focus was on slight different parts of the pic... sorry about that. Makes you check more closely.

Please DO NOT copy these images and paste into a reply for bandwidth sake...

You tell me which is which.

Jim

 

[Rick Darge]

My head wants to say the bottom image is Red, my heart says that its the top image but my soul says, who cares.. My DSLR is jealous either way

thanks for the silent comparison jim

 

[Álex Montoya]

I hope it's the first one.

 

[Seth Larney]

My guess is that the bottom is RED..

But not because I think the other one is better HOLY SHMOKES !!

 

[Jannard]

Focus of "b" is slightly in front of "a". It was hard to focus the Canon... which ever one that was.

Jim

 

[Seth Larney]

Hey Concrete,

Are you saying that because you think the image is soft on the paint tubes on the bottom image ?

As Jim say's, I think they're just slightly out of focus..

 

[Seth Larney]

Focus of "b" is slightly in front of "a". It was hard to focus the Canon... which ever one that was.

Jim

Whoops Jim, beat me to it

 

[Jannard]

They both have the type sharp on the chart. One has the tubes behind more in focus and the other has the small Canon pocket camera more in focus.

Check the channels... compare the colors, measure the charts with your color meter.

Jim

 

[Andreas Fernbrant]

Upper: RED
Lower: Canon

Based on noise characteristics.

 

[Johan Lindgren]

The bottom one.

of course.

Johlan

 

[laguun]

excellent

not knowning the canon _and_ r16 its hard too tell for me, but i would say upper canon, lower red.

However the point of the comparision is: the slight quality differences are, even for experts, almost unoticable when looking at the images on a 1:1 scale.

congratulations, another fine example of the superb quality red one can deliver.

 

[Fergus Meiklejohn]

I think Image B is the RED..

what a cool game though! You can't really tell them apart

 

[Peter McCully]

Upper: Canon
Lower: Red

 

[Jannard]

Remember, this is Canon's very best camera at this size sensor. It shoots 12fps. This is one of their very best lenses.

Jim

 

[Jannard]

If you are going to play... you need to say why.

Jim

 

[Álex Montoya]

I've played a bit with the images in PS and RED has to be the bottom one, 'cause I've yet to see a RED pic with so much effective resolution as the first one.

 

[Clay Morrison]

Based on the color rendition...

Top: Canon
Bottom: RED

When comparing noise they are nearly indistinguishable.

 

[Scott Webster]

Upper: Canon
Lower: Red

Ditto.
Edit: to follow Jim's rules, concentrating on the blue squares on the colour chart and the bottom pic has more of what I consider Red characteristics in those squares.

 

[Seth Larney]

My guess was based on the color rendition as well.

 

[Johan Lindgren]

Based on color and hilight handling me thinks RED is the lower one.

either one is great and i think you can tweak any one of the to look more like the other.

Johlan