I can see a marked difference if I select a D800 as one of the cameras under compare otherwise the differences between the K5 variants are academic at best IMO.
On 10 November 2012 22:04, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > The resolution advantage is there in plain view. Focus on any fine > text. Eg: examine the red square area below the globe, with the poem. > Try it at ISO 100 first then switch back to 6400. The K-5IIs degrades > the least of al the samples. > > I added the Canon 5DMkII in to the samples and was interested to note > that the K-5IIs actually beats it for fine rez, and looks cleaner at > 6400 ISO. > > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Rob Studdert <[email protected]> wrote: >> I sure as hell can't see any glaring advantage to the K-5 IIs, nor do >> I see any significant issue in red saturated areas of the test image. >> However what remains impressive is how little image quality >> degradation there is switching from ISO80 to ISO 800 ;) >> >> >> >> On 10 November 2012 14:53, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: >>> DPR has samples so you can do close-in comparison... here are the K-5, >>> the K-5 II, and K-5 IIs doing ISO6400 RAW. >>> >>> The IIs may have big advantages, but they're sure not on display here. >>> Zero in on anything that has intense red saturation; I was surprised >>> by what I saw. >>> >>> Having said that, I totally disapprove of pixel-peeping. Anyhow, >>> that's my story and I’m sticking to it. -T >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) >> Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours >> Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.

