The source of information that indicates that K-5 applies smoothing to RAW files even if I specifically set its settings not to do so.
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Zos Xavius <[email protected]> wrote: > The source for K-5 raw smoothing? The source for resized K3 files? > What source do you speak of Mr Boris? :P > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 11/26/2013 6:38 AM, Zos Xavius wrote: >>> >>> Also I must add that the k-5 does some definite noise reduction to the >>> raw files over iso 1600, whether that's in the imaging pipeline or the >>> firmware is neither hear nor there at this point. At 3200 on the k-5 >>> you are most certainly trading resolution for image quality. I don't >>> have any real figures, but I feel that looking at the files from my >>> k-5, its easily giving up quite a bit of resolution due to noise >>> smoothing. From what I can gather the K-3 is resolving more fine >>> detail but yet showing similar amounts of noise when resized to k-5 >>> resolution. That's what I have seen with my own eyes at least. To be >>> honest they are pretty close and careful raw processing will result >>> with more detail in the k-3 files with similar noise levels. I find >>> pentax's jpeg engine to be not the greatest at noise reduction, but >>> honestly, its better than some other camera makers too. >> >> >> Zos, can you please point me to the source of that information? I'm >> extremely interested to *know*. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> -- >> 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.
