> On Dec 17, 2017, at 4:00 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually the K-5 isn't that much older. It was introduced in 2010 and > discontinued officially 2013 about a year after the K-5II and K-5IIs were > released. > > There wasn't a lot of "improvement" in APS-C sensors from the K-5 until the > release of 24mp Cameras like the K-3 were released at the end of 2013, (which > includes the Nikon 3xxx, 5xxx and 7xxx which all received pretty much the > same sensor). > > The K-5 sensor when tested by DxO remained at the top of APS-C sensors for a > number or years, and even beat out FF and even a couple of Medium format > sensors. > > The Fuji X-Trans sensors were also in the class that DxO put near the top of > the heap. > > One can take exception to what makes a sensor good, and DxO may be testing > some of the wrong things but they are consistent for comparison purposes.
Thanks, P.J. (Is it Peter? I got it wrong once, was admonished, and have been shy since.) The information in this and your earlier post has been especially instructive/helpful. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] (I)t is important that awake people be awake... the darkness around us is deep. - William Stafford -- 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.
