Strangely, this was my first shot with the K7: http://s857.photobucket.com/albums/ab138/drd1135/PDML/?action=view¤t=IMGP0001.jpg
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:31 PM, P N Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > I posted two pairs of comparison pics. Some disclaimers. On the K-5 fireplug > pic I had the exposure comp set at -0.3, and the meter chose 1/250th at f5.6 > rather than the 1/200th @ f5.6 that the K-7 meter chose. Exposure comp on > the K-7 was at zero. For the house pics, the cameras were both set to zero > exposure comp, but the K-5 still chose to expose it slightly less. None of > the exposures are the least bit problematic. I was thinking last weekend > that I might use +0.3 as a standard exposure comp on the k-5. Time will > tell. For now I'm leaving it at zero. > > The color difference is clear. The K-7 pics are warmer. That, of course, can > be adjusted to personal taste in conversion. I think the k-5 color is a wee > bit more accurate, but it would take more careful testing to be sure. When I > shoot something that's color sensitive, I use a gray card to set color temp, > so it's pretty much irrelevant to me. > > In terms of quality, they're all just fine IMO. The K-7 pic of the house > appears to be slightly sharper at the focal point, which was the front door, > but the k-5 pic of the fireplug appears to be slightly sharper at the focal > point which was the hex on the fireplug cap. The K-7 performed admirably, as > it has for the past 23,700 frames I've shot with it. I'm keeping it, > although I do love the K-5 a bit more. > > No real challenges here in regard to highlights and shadows, but that's true > of most of the pics I shoot. Still happy to have the extended DR of the K-5, > but it's obviously not needed all of the time. > > Paul > > And the url is http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=968481 > > Click once to open and again to get a larger size. > > -- > 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. > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
