Canon EOS RP. Bad banding issue and black clipping.

[Bohica]

Hi 

I just bought an RP brand new.

I have noticed a lot of banding in the shadows.

I tried multiple settings but noting seems to help..

+ I'm noticing that there is an issue with the black clipping in these same areas.

--- Here are some picture to show the problem.

( the only edit made is raised shadows to show the issue !)

--- And the pictures with people in it are to show the clipping problem..

Still showing clipping warnings + banding after raising exposure and/or shadows... 

(the original picture with no edit is to show the level of clipping strait out of camera.)

***If someone can help i would really appreciate 😉 ***

[jrhoffman75]

Ip

I processed the image in Canon DPP4 and Lightroom Classic.

The shadow warning threshold in DPP4 was "0". I don't know what the trigger setting is in LrC, bit the RGB values were less than 1% in the area that was alerting.

To me both images look fine.

As I said in a previous post since you are not happy with the camera take it back now for a refund. If you don't you will suffer from analysis paralysis on every shoot and spend all your time looking for faults.

Olympus makes fine cameras; use it and enjoy your hobby.

[Peter]

The banding is worse than with my 6D. Download my raw file and check the black areas I marked. Bright those up.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w42WwVGrH54zAvbALaFOV6jR6bej_yVV/view?usp=sharing

[Bohica]

Well, im not sure it is even comparable loll

i had to push the shadows to 100 and the exposure + 3. before i can really notice the banding.

at that point every color looks white loll i dont think youll ever need to go that far 😛

[Peter]

Exactly. Your RP is worse ^^

[Pharis3950]

Me too!

I'm sorry that some of your responses sound like people in an Apple forum where they seem to defend every camera as if someone having a problem destroys the whole brand rep in their mind. This isn't acceptable - I don't care what anybody else says.  And it's not a Canon thing - I think it's an RP thing. I've owned a T2i, 60D, 70D, RP and now R6. The RP is the ONLY camera that did this to me.  I took pictures of my graduation outdoors, in RAW format, and all the navy blue outfits were wrecked!  Banding everywhere, from a brand new camera! I felt so betrayed. I tried to like that camera, but I hate it.  It's a toy and I started voluntarily using my 70D again to regain my sanity. Finally, I just bought a R6 and life was better.  I think even the R doesn't have this problem - it's an actual defect, regardless of what anybody says.  Even my G15 point and shoot didn't do this.