>From my limited understanding, the higher dynamic range of the K-5 indicates a lot more headroom. I may be totally wrong about this.
-- MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ 2010/11/7 Boris Liberman <[email protected]>: > Funny you should post this report, Jaume. Few days ago I had very similar > experience with my K-7 - misconfigured the flash and it did not fire in > rather dimly lit room. I had to apply a bit of Topaz Denoise (but again, I > fancy it now, 'cause it is my most recent 'toy') and the picture was totally > salvageable. > > The opposite however is much more interesting. Off top of my head, K10D has > about 1 Ev (may be a bit more) of RAW headroom in bright areas. K-7 in turn > has hardly 0.5 Ev. In fact, K-7 really sucks when it comes to dealing with > bright light - minimal exposure error - total loss. I will be much more > interested to know how K-5 fares in that department. I sincerely hope it > does better than both K10D and K-7. > > Oh yes, I just said that out loud - K-7 sensor really sucks. > > Boris > > > On 11/6/2010 10:47 PM, Jaume Lahuerta wrote: >> >> This fortunate Spanish K-5 owner tried to recover a picture where the >> flash >> didn't fire when it was supposed to do (it wasn't charged). >> >> >> They challenged the camera for fun and were surprised by the results: >> http://www.pentaxeros.com/forum/index.php?topic=37916.0 >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
