All of you who are disappointed in the k10d because of the dpreview report should check popphoto.com's report or reread the luminous landscape report. Pop Photo has long complained about the soft jpeg image quality of the ist d series. They said that the k10d not only proves Pentax belongs in the big leagues, it's an all star player. They went on to say that "Overall image quality is excellent throughout the iso range. Color accuracy is excellent. Noise is exceptionally well controlled all the way through and resolution is excellent at all ISOs. In fact there is less than a 5 percent drop off in resolution from ISO 100 (1925 lines) to ISO 1600 ( 1845 ) and noise only climbs from very low (1.15) to low (1.95) from lowest to highest ISO."
It's interesting to note the Luminous Landscape 2003 report on the ist d toward the bottom of the report. "...there has been discussion on some net forums about the cameras images being soft. Nonsense. Pentax has wisely avoided over sharpening images in the camera. When properly sharpened they leave nothing to be desired. Once again beginners and the uninformed are confusing resolution with sharpening. " The Luminous Landscape report on the k10d said ""...Image quality is on a par with virtually anything else on the market." So the bottom line here is that Pentax has given us the camera we have been asking for for a very long time. DG -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
