The 100% Crop Comparison
All things being “equal” here, two things stand out to me in the comparison of the 100% crops:
1-The feathers behind and above the bird’s eye are sharper in the 7D II image than in the 5D III image.
2-As far as noise, the 7D II image looks a lot cleaner.
Of course, as we learned above it is difficult to be sure that all things were in fact equal. None-the-less, I was so stunned by what I was seeing that I kept having to go back and check to see which was the 7D II image and which was the 5D III image….