On 7 November 2010 08:09, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote: > Dynamic Range in EV has no effect on the amount of shades the K-5 can > discern, it is merely defines the maximum and minimum brightness > values which supply usable data at the same time. The ability to > discern individual shades (or more properly differences between two > shades) is solely controlled by how many bits wide the ADC system is. > The K-5 can discern 2^14 shades maximum across a 14.1 EV ( a > brightness range of 2^14.1) range according to the DxO tests. There is > no direct correspondence between the two. > > -Adam
What Adam said. --M. PS: Thanks for saving me all that writing :-) -- \/\/o/\/\ --> http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment -- 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.
