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The EOS 90D can take great looking images right across its ISO range, but if detail is important in low light, you’ll be better off with a tripod and a lower ISO setting. But if you take a closer look it’s apparent that fine textured detail is starting to smooth over as early as ISO 1,600.
Images look good – at a distance – right up to ISO 6,400 or even 12,800 (ISO 25,600 is a bit of a push). Worse, the increased pixel density does appear to have had an effect on the EOS 90D high ISO performance.
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and yet, it never felt you QUITE got the full 18MP value in terms of detail rendition, either through limitations in the sensor or Canon's less than stellar kit lenses. This is reminiscent of Canon's old 18MP APS-C sensor which, when it was first introduced, set a new benchmark for megapixels. Canon’s new sensor does not provide the definitive step up in resolution that the figures left us hoping for. Our lab tests show very good resolution for an APS-C camera, but it’s matched or nearly matched by a number of rival cameras with 24 megapixels. The design and operation of the EOS 90D might be nigh-on perfect, but things take a slightly different turn with its performance. (Image credit: Rod Lawton/Digital Camera World) Performance The back of the camera has a prominent live view button with a stills/video lever around the outside, and just below that is a new joystick controller. There’s another AF area button on the back, alongside buttons for AE/AF lock and an AF-ON function. Four buttons in front of the top LCD panel control the AF mode, drive mode, ISO and metering pattern, while another button the other side of the top control dial adjusts the AF area. The twin-dial setup has a narrow knurled wheel on the top of the grip and a second dial on the back of the camera around the four-way D-pad. Its smoothly contoured profiles and grippy textured surfaces give your hands and fingers more surface area and leverage – paradoxically, this larger and heavier camera is more comfortable to carry around one-handed than many mirrorless cameras half its size.Ĭanon has been designing DSLR controls for a long time, and it shows. The EOS 90D is thick and chunky, but with plenty of space for plenty of controls. We’re constantly being told how mirrorless cameras are lighter, smaller and more comfortable to carry around than a DSLR, but the Canon counteracts that with its own qualities. The EOS 90D has an unashamedly meaty feel. (Image credit: Rod Lawton/Digital Camera World) Build and handling This is what all the fuss is about – the Canon EOS 90D's new 32.5MP APS-C sensor. Read more: DSLR vs mirrorless cameras : how they compare.In fact you could say that the EOS 90D is the equal of any mirrorless camera, but with the advantage of an optical viewfinder. The EOS 90D uses Canon’s Dual Pixel CMOS AF system, as used to great effect on its mirrorless cameras, so when you switch the EOS 90D to live view mode, it’s at no autofocus disadvantage at all compared to a mirrorless camera.
There’s something else worth pointing out too. Now, you don’t get an instant crop factor when you switch to 4K video, and your wide lenses do actually stay ‘wide’!
The EOS 90D also shoots 4K video – and not in the irritating crop mode previously seen on Canon cameras, but using the full sensor width at last. Read more: Canon EOS 90D vs EOS 80D vs EOS 7D Mark II : 12 key differencesīut it’s not just about the frame rate.The EOS 90D is most like the EOS 80D in its design and construction – and pricing – but pretty much thrashes the EOS 7D Mark II in all but autofocus specifications. In fact, the EOS 90D represents a merging of two previously separate Canon DSLR lines – the EOS 80D and the EOS 7D Mark II.