----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom C"
Subject: Re: Some more new camera speculation
For me at least, I don't plan to throw any more money into Pentax. A lot of the photography I enjoy doing is night shots, including quite shortly astrophotography. Therefore a lower noise at higher ISO camera would be of great benefit.
No law sez you can't buy a camera body specifically for astrophotography. It can be whatever you want. The low noise thing is a non starter though. There is only the Canon 5D which may have noticably lower noise than the other stuff thats out there. Something I have found is that quite often what appears to be a noisy image on the screen turns out to be quite a nice image on paper. I think it has something to do with looking for problems at 200%, then looking at pictures at 20%.
Also, no one has any idea of what sort of noise levels the new Pentax will have, since at this point, no one has seen images from it, what sort of moise reduction software will be built into it, or even know for sure what chip will be in it.
William Robb
