Canon EOS 7D

Focal length: 28mm
Aperture: f/16
Shutter: 1/80
ISO:400

Shot looking northeast from the south end of New York’s Central Park, using evaluative metering and the Landscape Picture Style, in aperture priority mode, with -1/3 EV exposure comp.

The camera’s wide dynamic range is evident here: the sky isn’t blown out, and there’s good detail both on the distant sunlit buildings and the shadowy foreground. Chromatic aberration does crop up in the side tree branches, though.

Focal length: 135mm
Aperture: f/7.1
Shutter: 1/800
ISO:800

Shot at the Bryant Park skating rink in NYC, using the Faithful Picture Style with spot metering and automatic white balance. The bright reds are subdued here due to the relatively low saturation of this color mode, though we like the flesh tones, and could ramp up the intensity in image editing software (this is a straight-from-the-camera image).

Focal length: 125mm
Aperture: f/7.1
Shutter: 1/250
ISO:200

This holiday-decorated apartment building was shot using Standard Picture Style and evaluative metering in program AE mode.

Detail in the stonework and the straight lines of the window frames were captured crisply, and the color intensity in the wreath is strong but pleasant

Focal length: 35mm
Aperture: f/7.1
Shutter: 1/250
ISO:800

The famous statue of Prometheus in Rockefeller Center shines nicely here. as do the cold skater’s faces, in a Standard Picture Style shot, taken with partial metering (which uses a central area larger than the spot metering setting), auto white balance and shutter priority shooting mode.

Focal length: 44mm
Aperture: f/10
Shutter: 1/4
ISO:6400

To see the effect of increasing high ISO noise reduction levels on fine image detail, we lit these artificial flowers to about 40 lux and used -1 stop exposure comp to maintain detail in the white flowers. We shot on a tripod, using Standard Picture Style, auto white balance and aperture priority mode. The large image at left was shot with noise reduction at the default Standard setting.

The black background noise levels decrease as expected as we ramp up the noise processing, though the fabric and vase texture suffer as a consequence. Clicking on any of the images below will bring up the full-resolution image in a separate window.

Focal length: 57mm
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter: 1/400
ISO:100

This close-up of a New York State license plate was taken on a tripod using evaluative metering and auto white balance, with zone autofocus set to the central area in program mode.

The center of the image is quite sharp, the edges much softer, even at a relatively wide aperture setting.