Well said! I remember that original review of *istD and also remember being happy that Pentax wasn't over sharpening images. I ordered my k10D on Thursday (from Dell of all places; ordering it on a new Dell account gave me an automatic $150 discount, which will go toward the grip when that's available again), and I'm looking forward to using it.
On Dec 18, 2006, at 10:59 AM, dick graham wrote: > > 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
