Welcome to 2007! *sigh*
I hate to give fuel to the doomsayers and eternal pessimists (read: the seeming majority of DPReview's forum users and a few guys here), but I think there's a problem with my K10D. I never saw long-exposure noise like this in my *istD. Here are three versions of the same two-photo (10-second exposures) stitch. Granted, they're reduced in size and compressed, but if you look at them in photoshop or a browser with a non-white background, you'll see what I'm talking about. Full color: http://www.neovenator.com/special/new_year_pano_color.jpg Red channel: http://www.neovenator.com/special/new_year_pano_red_channel.jpg - very low noise, and the green channel is similar Blue channel: http://www.neovenator.com/special/new_year_pano_blue_channel.jpg - it's so noisy, it looks like a photo in a newspaper printed with rollers that were covered in dirt. Look at those streaks! It's horrible! Here's the right frame, which you can take into photoshop and see the channels first-hand: http://www.neovenator.com/special/new_year_pano_frame.jpg This is incredibly frustrating. It's a good thing I wasn't able to make my big nighttime pano this year, because the noise would be driving me insane. My question is, should I wait for Pentax to release a firmware update and see if that solves the problem, or call up Pentax this week and bug them about it? Also, what's a good phone number for reaching Pentax (US)? Thanks, John -- http://www.neovenator.com http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
