Photography News issue 21

Camera test

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In-camera HDR HDR shooting can be done in Raw or JPEG and five effects are available. There is also the option of auto HDR where you let the camera decide on the bracket range or manually set +/-1EV, +/-2EV or +/-3EV. There is also an auto alignment feature to assist handheld shooting.

was set manually at ISO 400, but the camera overrode this for the underexposed shot of the bracket by setting ISO 100 while keeping the aperture and shutter speed settings the same. The third shot in the sequence went back to ISO 400 and this time the shutter was 1/45sec.

The three shot bracket can be retained as original Raw files for working on later, or you can have just the processed JPEG kept. Processing in Raw takes 14 seconds. The base exposure of the handheld shot shown here was 1/160sec at f/6.7 with a Canon 24-70mm f/2.8. The ISO

STRAIGHT RAW FILE

ART NATURAL

ART STANDARD

ART VIVID

ART BOLD

ART EMBOSSED

The EOS 5DS’s exposure system coped very well on our test even on very tricky contrast situations. In this unedited image there is detail in the shadows and the highlights and the Raw tweaked in Lightroom gave a fine result. Exposed at 1/90sec at f/11, ISO 200 using the EF 24-70mm f/2.8 II.

The concluding part of the Canon EOS 5DS review including a close look at the AF and exposure systems, plus a comparison with the EOS 5DS R will be in the next Photography News , out 22 July. Don’tmiss the verdict nextmonth

The camera has an AF Microadjustment feature and I called upon this when using the Canon 70-200mm f/4L IS USM. My initial shots with this lens seemed to lack bite and were improved with some experimentation with this feature. Exposed at 1/250sec at f/13, ISO 200

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