Originally posted by Qwntm And people like Thom Hogan who actually shot the camera, surprise, surprise say something different than what DXO says, and they say why it's so.
DxOMarked | DSLRBodies | Thom Hogan
I think this says it best though: "For some reason these posted numbers seem to have reverence for folk who don’t fully understand how they’re calculated."
Right, but then his own observations perfectly matches dxomark curves, so I'm not sure what his point is.
"But heck with the data, what do I see? (1) minimal and ignorable differences between the D500 and D7200 in raw capture;"
As the DXOmark curves indicates.
"(2) slightly better noise reduction handling in the D500 over the D7200 in JPEGs;"
This can't be seen though as they don't evaluate jpegs.
"(3) better raw and JPEG output from the D5 than the D500 in the critical range I shoot sports in (ISO 1600 to ISO 6400, sometimes 12800);"
Right, as the curves says. (Except the jpeg part).
"(4) worse D5 raw output than the D4/D4s up to about ISO 1600, but not enough to fret about, and somewhat better D5 output than the D4/D4s above ISO 1600,"
As the curves indicates.
What was his point again?