Hmmm, so a camera with so many bits of RAW can do what then? Discern 2^so many shades, right? And the dynamic range is about when it goes to saturation either to pure black and pure white. Ok, so tell me then, the wise people of PDML, is there a way looking at the same picture shot with K-7 and K-5 to tell them apart? Or better yet, how do I /see/ that one camera has wider DR than the other and that more BPS in RAW are more beneficial than less BPS in RAW in real life. And how all that translates to actual print?
The only thing that comes to my mind is that wider DR and more BPS gives me wider range of corrections in post or RAW development before I start to see things like posterization etc. Anything beside/beyond that? On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Miserere <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Boris -- 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.
