On 15 Jul 2005 at 17:54, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Jul 15, 2005, at 5:20 PM, Rob Studdert wrote: > > > The Pentax subtractive NR should only degrade the image where the > > image has > > hot/stuck pixels, it shouldn't alter the overall noise pattern as > > it appears to > > only affect pixels over a certain threshold. So if anyone is seeing > > overall > > image degradation with NR on then I assume that the camera is faulty. > > The word "should" is aptly used. And the *ist DS NR is not supposed > to be active at any shutter speed over 1/25 second anyway. > > However, several folks have reported that they see some degradation > with NR enabled at short shutter times, so I just leave it off unless > I need it for long exposures.
Test it. It doesn't degrade the image in or out of the active shutter speeds (not in my *ist D anyhow). I can't hear the difference between two digital devices connected using AES/EBU, wired co-axial or TOSLink optical digital audio stream either, some claim they can :-) Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
