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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mjobling" data-source="post: 1391180" data-attributes="member: 1593">Well, I took the plunge and got the 50D.  Not done any bird photography yet, but some interesting findings already.Out of the box settings have a major flaw.  A feature called "Auto Lighting Optimizer" is enabled by default, which leads RAW images to look noisy even at 100 ISO, when viewed in DPP.  Once this is disabled and the images which had it enabled have the effect removed in DPP, the there is no noise at low ISO and noise handling via DPP at higher ISOs is superb.I'm wondering if this Auto Lighting Optimizer setting combined with poor RAW handling algorithms from Adobe are causing the lukewarm reception for this camera, as many owners may be oblivious to the problem.Will hopefully get the Bigma on it this weekend and see how it does for the birds, but 100% crops with my Canon EF-L Lenses are looking amazing so far.</blockquote>