5D MKii ISO 4000 & Budget Lens

I had the opportunity the other evening to shoot some images with a tuition client using one of our new 5D MKii's. I've been in the process of writing a more comprehensive review of the unit however I wanted to post a couple of examples on here to give prospective buyers an idea of what they can expect.

The image below was shot at ISO 4000 at F5 using a Tamron 28-75mm F2.8 lens (One of the most affordable and lightweight F2.8's available). This isn't a match for the 24-70mm Canon unit but these images will give you an idea of what can be resolved detail wise and how well the camera performs at a relatively high ISO. The first image is the uncropped image, processed using the default in Lightroom with no adjustments or sharpening. This was shot handheld and a couple of speedlites provided the illumination.


The next image is a 1000% crop from the image above allowing you to take a closer look at the detail and noise in the image. Once again no processing other than the default lightroom settings with no additional sharpening.


After these set up shots were done I continued to shoot and created a few of the images below which have had a full lighting set up and have been processed in Lightroom and CS3.
A slightly more dramatic angle in this one and a touch wider ... as you can see these were shot just as the sky was turning that lovely deep blue. Adjusting the shutter speed and ISO to control the ambient and allowing the flash units to keep the subject sharp create some strong and high impact images.