Not specifically a reply to Alex, just tagging into the thread here with a couple of comments.
I've read the reviews and a bunch of the threads on DPreview and found them interesting. If you read the review and try to stay objective, he's saying that Pentax hasn't designed the JPEG conversion to produce the type of photo that most everyone else has. They've made some different decisions and choices. He also says you're not going to see the difference in anything smaller than an A3 print. - Another forum member posted a copy of his email to Pentax stating his demand to immediately fix this in a firmware release. A bit later he posted the reply from Pentax. Paraphrasing - No young man, we designed it that way on purpose. Perhaps you should just bump up the sharpening adjustment a tiny bit. - With all due respect to Phil's work, we're seeing a sea change in equipment here and his current testing will need to adapt, and I'm sure it will. For instance - His SR testing methodology is ok in that it is consistent, but I'm not sure that it tests anything more that how well SR/IS/VR works for Phil. At least one other major photo magazine has expressed a bit of concern over coming up with a decent way to test SR from any manufacturer. - Personally, I thought it was an ok review. It's like reading any other review. You have to be familiar with the reviewer and his style or you don't know how to interpret the info. Given Phil Askey's other reviews and his background I thought it was a rave. See you later, GS <http://georgesphotos.net> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
