Re: Pixel-peek (you know you want to) K-5 vs K-5iis

2012-10-24 Thread William Robb
On 24/10/2012 1:48 PM, Darren Addy wrote: I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide if that makes it worth the price of an upgrade from your K-5. I believe that most people will be putting more emphasis on its AF capabilities, as compared to the K-5, before deciding. But I think I'm goi

Re: Pixel-peek (you know you want to) K-5 vs K-5iis

2012-10-24 Thread David Parsons
It doesn't really prove much IMO. Without controlling for variables such as lighting, distance, focus, microfocus adjustment, it's just two pictures of a note. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Darren Addy wrote: > The size of the cropped image is irrelevant if it is an actual pixel > size image

Re: Pixel-peek (you know you want to) K-5 vs K-5iis

2012-10-24 Thread Darren Addy
The size of the cropped image is irrelevant if it is an actual pixel size image (which they are). The FA31 is not a macro lens. : ) They've just saved you a lot of time and bandwidth over downloading the full image (and also made it practical to put them side-by-side on screen). -- PDML Pentax-D

Re: Pixel-peek (you know you want to) K-5 vs K-5iis

2012-10-24 Thread Paul Stenquist
No pixel peeping there. The images are only 718 pixels on each side. Hard to determine anything on the basis of such mall images, although I did compare the two f4 images, and while the color varies greatly (no color space assigned), one does appear to be somewhat sharper than the other. Pul On

Pixel-peek (you know you want to) K-5 vs K-5iis

2012-10-24 Thread Darren Addy
Don't know if you've seen this already or not, but here is a comparison of a Japanese Yen note photographed with the same lens (FA 31mm f1.8 AL Limited) on a K-5 and then with a K-5iis K-5 http://pentax.briefing-paper.com/1121 Posted in May K-5iis http://pentax.briefing-paper.com/1864 Posted toda