I concur with Paul on this. To put it bluntly and unscientifically, the metering and exposure control on a K20D (and assumed K10D), is far behind a K-7.
I'm not sure I'd give a friend a K10D or my used K20D. This is the curse of the digital age. Is giving a friend, a camera you despise a favor or an evil trick? OTOH, I don't have many qualms abot the K7. Tom C. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:32 PM, paul stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:18 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:00 PM, paul stenquist >> <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> >>> The K7 high iSO performance is decent -- at least a stop better than the >>> K20D. It's quite acceptable at 6400 and darn good at 3200. And it's >>> metering is apparently far better than the Kx. That counts for a lot at >>> high ISO. >>> Paul >>> >> >> Paul, >> >> The metering's definitely better on the K-7, but everything I'm seeing >> is showing noise performance to be similar to the K20D given the same >> scene and exposure, the net win is entirely from the better metering >> and thus disappears when you stop relying on AE, which I do in really >> low light. >> >> When I bought the E-30, I looked closely at the K-7 (it was >> fundamentally the camera I wanted), but I saw little difference in the >> actual high ISO performance between it anc the E-30, maybe a half stop >> at most (the K-7 is better at 3200 than the E-30, but 6400 on the K-7 >> is definitely worse than 3200 on the E-30). The K-x on the other hand >> is damned near clean at ISO 6400 and remarkably good at 12,800. I'd >> rate it almost 2 stops better than the K-7 for noise. >> >> Note I pretty much end up ignoring the meter in really low light, I >> work from the histogram instead and reshoot if necessary. > > I too work from the histogram when possible. But some shots can't be redone. > In those cases, the K7 metering is a real plus. It's very good in all > conditions. > Paul -- 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.
