The info is right there in the review. In short, there is more info to recover in the SHADOW areas of the K-5/ii/iis than the K-3. As we all know, if you blow out highlights, that info is just GONE.
I'm with Boris on the importance of dynamic range and completely disagree with the point of view that 6 stops of dynamic range is all one needs for most scenes. I think you are confusing the dynamic range of the OUTPUT (like a JPEG on a monitor) with the usefulness of the dynamic range in the RAW that you will use to GENERATE the output file (to monitor or print). It is always useful to have more info to draw from in the source RAW. On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul, I would very much appreciate a screenshot or any other way I can > see and examine where it shows how you recovered these overexposed > shots. > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Nov 13, 2013, at 9:49 AM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 12/11/2013 11:20 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Not trying to sound pessimistic or anything, but DR is the most >>>> important aspect to me. So I get to keep my K-5 for now. >>>> >>> Out of curiosity, do you know what the DR of the K3 is (I don't)? >>> >>> The K5 is something like 14 stops at base ISO, which is something like 8 >>> stops more than most people will encounter in real life picture taking >>> situations. >>> Extreme DR perhaps isn't as important as you think it needs to be, and the >>> DR of the K3 seems ample, at least at lower ISOs. >>> >>> bill >>> >> I've wondered about this concern over DR myself. Compared to the slide film >> we all used to shoot, modern digital cameras have a huge range. I don't >> recall ever running out of latitude. (I grossly overexposed a white interior >> on a car shoot last summer when brain fade set in, but was easily able to >> retrieve detail in conversion.) I shot some ducks on a river that was >> offering some reflections of direct sunlight last weekend with the K-3 and >> didn't experience any difficulty. So far, it seems as forgiving as the K-5 >> in that regard. >> >> Paul >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > > > -- > 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. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- 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.
