Lol.. Jack
--- On Mon, 11/8/10, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > From: P. J. Alling <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: K-5, K-7, side-by-side at ISO 6400 > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, November 8, 2010, 3:16 PM > Looking at the photos, while not > noiseless to my eye, the K-5 noise patterns are clearly less > obtrusive, so much more controlled than the K-7 that I'm now > clearly glad that I decided to skip that generation of DSLR > and wait for the next. Well I guess the next > generation is here and I'll have to start saving my pennies > again. > > On 11/8/2010 5:25 PM, P N Stenquist wrote: > > Boris asked me to provide a direct comparison. So here > it is. One pic each of the same scene from each camera, shot > off a tripod with the DA* 16-50 at f5.6, 1/60th. (Both > meters agreed on that exposure.) The FOV varies slightly, > because I turned the zoom ring a bit when removing the lens > from camera one. The K-7 pic is 22mm, the K-5 is 21mm. In > addition to one shot from each, I've combined the two images > for direct viewing of both at once. I've sized the jpegs > slightly larger than my normal web pics for better detail > viewing. Both are raws, converted with the default settings > of my ACR softwre. > > > > The scene is a cluttered part of my basement, with > illuminated ( and dusty:-) foreground objects and deep > shadows in the background. In the shadows are some white > surfaces that readily show noise. There's also a hot > highlight in the background -- a light reflected in a > mirror. Ugly pics, but telling examples. Note that the K-5 > renders colors warmer and, as Boris suggested earlier, the > unprocessed pic appears to have less contrast. > > > > K-7 image: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11920154&size=lg > > > > K-5 image > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11920153&size=lg > > > > Both together: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11920155&size=lg > > > > > -- "His lack of education is more than compensated for by > his keenly developed moral bankruptcy." > -Woody Allen > > > -- 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.
