Hi Stan, On Thu, 10 May 2018 10:02:44 -0400 Stanley Halpin wrote: > >I wonder if the DPReview guys RTFM?
:-) > I just pulled down the K-1ii manual, did a search for Noise. On pages 55-56 > there are detailed instructions on how to set High-ISO Noise Reduction. The > available options under Settings Menu screen 2 are Auto, Low, Medium, High, Custom, and Off. When Off is selected, Noise Reduction is not applied at any ISO setting. When e.g. Low is selected, a Low degree of Noise Reduction is applied at all ISO levels. Under Custom, the user can step through all available ISO levels and select the desired level of noise reduction for each level. The screen shot for this step is too small, I can't be sure what the options are, but I believe they are Low, Medium, and High. Off option may be missing. >So, it seems that the User does have a choice. Can either turn Off High-ISO >Noise Reduction across the board, or turn NR on at one of three levels across >the board, or turn NR on at varying levels according to your preferences. As far as I understood the various threads about this (DPReview and Pentax-forums), the consensus is that this is the familiar noise-reduction IN SOFTWARE ONLY, that always has been there is some form or another. The (additional ?) noise reduction that now seems to be present is done by the accelerator-unit, which is a HARDWARE processor that sits in between the sensor and the existing processing in the PRIME engine (after the AD-converter I gues, so in the digital domain already) It being a hardware solution, and in the direct image-processing path, it may be hard to supply an easy ON/OFF mechanism. But I guess no one outside Pentax really knows for sure at the moment ... Perhaps, but I doubt it. >My conclusion, based on the above, and also on reading comments here and on >DPReview, is that their conclusion is off the mark. Perhaps, we will see it in the coming months I hope. >I have two K-1 bodies. The upgrade program is supposed to start on May 21st >according to the original press release. I intend to go ahead with an upgrade >on one of the bodies. When it is returned, I will do what I can to compare K-1 vs. K-1ii and verify that no great image quality degradation has occurred. Assuming all is well, I'll then send in the second body. That sounds like a good plan. Even if you only convert one of them, that WILL have the improvements in AF for when you need it :) Unfortunately I only have one, so can't take that route. Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com Flickr : jvw_pentax -- 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.
