The Nikon's clearly have their NR turned off. They're far better, with very little loss of detail at high ISO, with NR on.
D300 at ISO6400 (Largish and overharpened a bit): http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2183/2202637577_3713e01c51_o.jpg -Adam On 2/8/08, Peter Fairweather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thiboiulle > > Thanks for this. I've put on my special VDU focal length glasses and > blown up the images a bit on my 24" monitor. So that they just fit on > the screen. Here are my completely unscientific conclusions. > > C*n** 40D. Rubbish, does not resolve the detail on the flower on the > shoulder even at low ISO. > > Sony, surprisingly good maybe 1-2 stops worse than the Pentax but the > noise looks different > > Nikon D300. Surprisingly poor. Around 2 stops worse than the Pentax. > Useless above ISO800. It costs how much??! > > Nikon D3 What a marketing con. ISO 25000 looks unusable. Obviously > dreamt up by the same marketing team who gave us burst mode in the > K20D. Detail is one to two stops better than the K20D. Must be why it > is two to three times more expensive!! > > Would have been nice to see the K10D and a Canon full frame to > complete the picture. However I'll be sticking to my K10D and the 67II > for the time being > > Many thanks > > Peter > > -- > 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. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.