Quality

To compare the noise levels of the Canon EOS 90D, I photographed the following scene with it at all sensitivities in RAW+JPEG mode, before repeating the test moments later with the EOS 80D for comparison. I then took crops from the area marked by the red rectangle for side-by-side comparison in the table below. JPEGs are straight out of camera using the default settings, while RAW files were processed in Adobe Camera RAW with noise reduction disabled and high sharpening of 36 / 0.5 / 10 / 36 to really show what’s going on behind the scenes and what data is available to work with. Note the 90D’s RAW files weren’t supported by Adobe at the time I created this page, so for now I’m presenting JPEG results only; I’ll add the RAW comparison later.

Canon EOS 80D vs EOS 90D noise (OOC JPEG)

Above left: Canon EOS 80D. Above right: Canon EOS 90D. 100% crops from JPEGs at 100 ISO

Above left: Canon EOS 80D. Above right: Canon EOS 90D. 100% crops from JPEGs at 200 ISO

Above left: Canon EOS 80D. Above right: Canon EOS 90D. 100% crops from JPEGs at 400 ISO

Above left: Canon EOS 80D. Above right: Canon EOS 90D. 100% crops from JPEGs at 800 ISO

Above left: Canon EOS 80D. Above right: Canon EOS 90D. 100% crops from JPEGs at 1600 ISO

Above left: Canon EOS 80D. Above right: Canon EOS 90D. 100% crops from JPEGs at 3200 ISO

Above left: Canon EOS 80D. Above right: Canon EOS 90D. 100% crops from JPEGs at 6400 ISO

Above left: Canon EOS 80D. Above right: Canon EOS 90D. 100% crops from JPEGs at 12800 ISO

Above left: Canon EOS 80D. Above right: Canon EOS 90D. 100% crops from JPEGs at 25600 ISO