On Nov 10, 2010, at 2:15 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Thanks, Paul. > > I have two points to make here. > > 1. Somehow K5 came up with much more realistic and pleasant colors. See e.g. > the sky above the building.
That's probably a matter of better AWB. If I had used a grey card and manually set white balance or even just adjusted it in conversion, I think they would have had the same color rendering. > > 2. These two pictures are closer than I thought in tonal variation. Likely > because they are presented for the web. The full size files are similar. No noise in the shadows on the K-7 pics. And, as I said, the focal point of the house pic is sharper on the K-7 pic -- which led me to readjust the focus point for the K-5 and DA* 15-50. I think I had missed on that one a bit. Setting focus is tough with the wider lenses. I'm going to make a larger target for those lenses. One which extends deeper into the foreground and background. > > I spoke to Julia and she wasn't at all against the upgrade. So, I am taking > my measures to get rid of K7 and acquire K5. All subject to usual disclaimers > of price, availability, etc. > > 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. -- 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.
