What's this? A challenge?! Tripod vs handheld?! You dare me? :P Thankfully I happen to have my tripod with me today. The truth is out there friends...... :P
btw, I use eyebrows and eye lashes to determine focus. if they are remotely blurred I will toss the shot. On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thankfully, tripod vs handheld is a pleasant break from FF hot air. :-) > > Zos, eyebrows are my litmus test for system sharpness. Get a well-lit > headshot of somebody and examine their eyebrows. You should clearly > see the individual hairs. Any time I handhold to get such a shot the > eyebrows are invariably a gaussian smear. You cannot do clean > retouching of such images. > > I can show you a 100% crop of my model's eyebrows from the last beauty > shots I took using a tripod with my K20D and DA* 50-135. Clear, sharp, > detailed. I defy you to get that clarity handheld, no matter the > shutter speed. > > BTW, I compared Gerrit's K-5 doing the same thing: there was no > effective resolution difference to the K20D. I'm hoping to try a > K-5IIs for this as well. I suspect it will do much better. > > I hope there will be a 24mpx APS-C upgrade to the K-5. 'Till then, I'm > happy with the K20. > > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Zos Xavius <zosxav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I don't know about you, but over 1/200 I can rarely see much >> difference in hand held vs tripod and I am certainly capable of sharp >> pictures down to even 1/8s hand held with wide angle lenses. I have a >> few 1/4s pictures that I have kept even that were very sharp. If I >> have the slightest hint of camera shake, I tend not to keep the image. >> That's just me though. The moire on the K-5 IIs is troubling to me. At >> the apertures I shoot at, the gains in resolution would mostly be >> lost. Such is life. >> >> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Dario Bonazza >> <dario.bona...@virgilio.it> wrote: >>> You won't see evidence of the K-5IIs improvement over the K-5II in more than >>> 90% of handheld shots, as you don't have everything else in the quality >>> chain up to the task. >>> On the other hand, you'll have evidence of the K-5IIs improvement over the >>> K-5 (older model) in say 90% of shots in artificial light. >>> For some reason, the K-5IIs seems to manage noise a bit better than the >>> K-5II (and K-5) too. At least, the two K-5IIs bodies I had the chance to try >>> did so. >>> >>> Dario >>> >>> >>> -----Messaggio originale----- From: Aahz Maruch >>> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 7:17 PM >>> >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> Subject: Re: Any new flagship camera rumors? >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013, Dario Bonazza wrote: >>>> >>>> -----Messaggio originale----- From: Aahz Maruch >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013, Dario Bonazza wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Funny, as I thought of the 16MP sensor in the K-5IIs as the second >>>>>> most important reason to upgrade from the K-5 (the first one being >>>>>> of course the huge improvement in AF accuracy in odd light). 16MP is >>>>>> already more than I need and I'm happy to delay any forced pixel >>>>>> count increase as much as possible. That's a wonderful world, isn't >>>>>> it? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The K-5 has the same sensor, doesn't it? >>>> >>>> >>>> Yes, but without an anti-alias filter, which means a visible jump in >>>> resolution & sharpness when everything else (lens quality, steadiness >>>> & focus) is at best. >>> >>> >>> Missed that you were specifically talking about the IIs. Anyway, I took >>> both II and IIs on my Alaska cruise, will report whether I notice any >>> difference in sharpness (although there were essentially zero duplicate >>> shots taken with the same lens on both bodies). >>> -- >>> Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ >>> <*> <*> <*> >>> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Nessun virus nel messaggio. >>> Controllato da AVG - www.avg.com >>> Versione: 2013.0.3349 / Database dei virus: 3204/6496 - Data di rilascio: >>> 16/07/2013 >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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.
