I find how things work fascinating and always want to know more. I'm half tempted to run some tests with my K-5 to see if I can find out i the different color channels lose resolution by differing amounts, which might give a few clues. FWIW, I still think the K-5's implementation of 3200 and above is very pleasing and I wouldn't want them to change a thing.
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: > I see your point now... This is really interesting. I should take my time > and study it deeper. It would seem however that although noticed by some, > these effects are not very real-life important as far as non-brick-wall > shooting is concerned. > > Yet it certainly is worth one's while to know more about the specifics of > one's camera. > > Thanks for taking time and providing interesting links, Zos. > > > On 11/29/2013 5:43 PM, Zos Xavius wrote: >> >> >> http://pro.sony.com/bbsccms/assets/files/cat/camsec/solutions/E_CMOS_Sensor_WP_110427.pdf >> >> See page 5. It seems that they are doing further noise reduction in >> hardware after they convert to digital. Verrrrrrry interesting! >> >> There might be more to the theory that the chip is doing this before >> the imaging pipeline even sees the data. I'd kill for a white paper >> now. > > > > -- > 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.