Jostein, Thanks for the comparison. I apprecate you trying to make the comparison. Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:44 PM, AlunFoto <alunf...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
