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Images ruthlessly pulled from this Photo Rumors post: http://photorumors.com/2013/11/27/what-else-is-new-52/ Cheers, —M. \/\/o/\/\ --> http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment On 27 November 2013 12:24, Zos Xavius <zosxav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry for the delayed reply Boris. > > http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/36834206 > > Also read the Imaging Resource and dxomarks reviews of the K-5. Pretty > much all the reviews noticed the RAW NR above 1600. Given the K-5's > output at 3200, Pentax made a good choice IMO. Their hardware NR is > pretty decent, very clean looking, and still retains a lot of detail, > especially after the raws are processed gently in lightroom. I never > once objected to the engineers' decisions on the K-5 when it came to > the sensor. Pentax seems to be very good at massaging maximum > performance out of a sensor. The K-3 IMO looks very good too. A 50% > increase in density with similar noise and DR over the previous > generation is very good IMO. The next round of chips will likely be > even better. What's not to like? The K-5 I have is very good in IQ. > I'll keep shooting it till it doesn't take pictures anymore. > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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 <zosxav...@gmail.com> 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 <bori...@gmail.com> 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 >>>> 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> Boris >> >> -- >> 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.
