I have to agree the noise in the blue channel is bloody awful. I haven't done any night shooting with the K10D yet, but going by the pictures I made at the family Christmas dinner, all of which required suppression of the blue channel noise (using the reduce noise filter in PS CS2). Admittedly I was shooting at ISO 1600, but even still, the D was never that bad.
I hope it can be fixed via a firmware update. Dave (fingers crossed) On 1/2/07, John Celio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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)? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
