The diffraction effects are real, but depending your actual use of the camera they may or may not make a lot of difference.
By the time you do a little sharpening and downsizing you won't see anything unless you're looking for it, if at all. Now if you're making wall size prints it's a different story. On the other hand, as Mark mentioned, what you will see is the beautiful tonal gradation and wider dynamic range that is possible, especially at the lower ISO settings. I'm not sure if that's a result of the high pixel count or just the natural developments of sensors and processor tech, but it's sure nice. I've been going over a lot of my early attempts and have discovered less need for HDR post processing than I had expected. On another topic, as much as everyone talks about FF cameras, I wonder how many are thinking about the size of the lenses. I'm not thinking of the old manual focus lenses that the residents of this list love so much. I'm talking about lenses that will actually sell today and make money for pentax. There is a pretty big size and weight penalty. I'm not sure if Pentax has magic lens design skills unknown to N and C designers, but I doubt it. gs George Sinos -------------------- gsi...@gmail.com www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Bob Sullivan <rf.sulli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Dave, > That will give me some real world experience based idea. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:11 PM, David Savage <ozsav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Basically I've notice that the "aperture" sweet spot is even more >> critical at such a high MP count. >> >> When I migrated to Nikon I bought their best lenses (the holy trinity >> 14-24, 24-70, 780-200, ptus their 50 f1.4 & 85 f1.4). >> >> On the D700 I never really had any image quality issues with them. >> Those same lenses on the D800 are noticeably softer away from their >> respective "sweet spots". f5.6 - soft, f8 - shaper, f11 sweet, f16 - >> softer... >> >> Also the high resolution shows up flaws in your hand holding >> technique. The old rule of thumb of shutter speed being the inverse of >> the focal length doesn't really work any more. Double it to be sure, >> or use a tripod. >> >> The D800/D800E manual came with a series of instructions on how to >> maintain sharpness & detail. >> >> DS >> >> On 04/02/2013, Bob Sullivan <rf.sulli...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Dave, >>> How about giving us some more personal insights on 'diffraction issues >>> with most lenses.' >>> I'd like to know so I could get out in front of that issue. >>> Regards, Bob S. >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:43 AM, David Savage <ozsav...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> And loving it! >>>> >>>> ...except for the diffraction issues with most lenses... >>>> >>>> On 3 February 2013 12:30, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Poor Nikonians. Their flagship has twice as many pixels and then some >>>>> :-). >>>>> >>>>> On 2/1/2013 10:08 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Each RAW file is now larger than the first harddrive I ever owned. >>>>>> >>>>>> Nothing to be done for that, is there? I'm shooting DNG which I believe >>>>>> I >>>>>> heard is already stored in a semi-compressed state. >>>>>> >>>>>> -Charles >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com >>>>>> Minneapolis, MN >>>>>> http://charles.robinsontwins.org >>>>>> http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>>> 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 >>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>> 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 >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> 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 >> PDML@pdml.net >> 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 > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
