2011/1/23 Chris Mitchell <chris.mitch...@which.net>: > > A lovely shot - but then the K5 with one of your limited lenses would surely > have done as good a job... > > So don't let the red mist descend and get too carried away. The pusher's > "free go" is always the one that hooks you!
Thanks for the sobering words, Chris. Actually, the K-5 _is_ doing a decent job, but not quite up to the standard of the 645D. You see, this Pentax salesperson of mine is a clever guy. Very clever. I've had a K-5 with me too, these days. The 31mm ltd. on the K-5 has the same horizontal AOV as has the 55mm on 645D, so I did a head-to-head comparison. I shot this scene from a sturdy tripod: http://www.alunfoto.no/temp/645Night.jpg (300 kb) at f/11 and ISO 100 for max resolution on both cameras, and extracted the centre 760 pixels (or thereabouts) from both: http://www.alunfoto.no/temp/Untitled-1.jpg (460 kb) No sharpening has been applied. There is a colour difference between the two despite identical WB, so I assume I have to do something about camera calibration in Lightroom (v2.7) to get it sorted. Just haven't figured that one out yet, so please ignore. :-) But the detail. Look at the rendering of detail in the hoarfrost on the twigs and the detail contained in the shadowed tree in the background. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- 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.
