My intent in showing the side by side comparison is not to make anyone unhappy with their current equipment. Heaven knows that I believe that very cool images can be created with ANY camera of ANY kind of technology all the way down to a plastic Holga or home made pinhole camera. You can have a lifetime of fun with anything, especially if you have an imagination. And I'm not arguing that Pixel Shift Resolutution, is, by itself, a good enough reason to justify the purchase of a K-3II. It depends what you shoot and most people think about the kind of photography subjects that they shoot and don't see a use for it. Personally, I happen to have some subjects that I think it is going to work very well on.
As to why people cannot see the difference, I can't say. I don't know if it is their eyes, the size of the monitor they are looking at it on, the quality of the montior they are looking at it on (or its settings)... too many variables. The difference is clear to me, both on my 24" work monitor and my 15" laptop (though it becomes unclear if I turn the brightness on my laptop down).. Or they aren't clicking on the image to actually see it at 100% pixels. As to Boris question of print size, to see the difference, I can't say, particularly given that some people apparently can't see the difference on their monitors, which are 96dpi devices. To see the full aps-c frame at 96dpi you would have a 42 x 63" print. The crop I took for the side by side would be approximately a vertical 8x10 crop from that 42x63" image. PSR is simply another tool in the toolbox. Once you have the tool in your toolbox you start thinking about different ways that it could be used. It is like a sharpening tool in post-processing, only much better because that method produces artifacts when the subject is moving and oversharpening also produces artifacts. Speaking of PSR artifacts, I don't see why it would'n't be practical to take two images of a scene (PSR and "normal") and put the PSR layer over the normal layer in Photoshop and simply DROP OUT any PSR artifacts that resulted from moving. I think that would make an image that would make those pixels imperceptible. Pixel Shift Resolution should make any Pentax user (or fanboy) seriously proud of the Pentax engineers that came up with this system and pulled it off. Pentax engineers have been figuring out how to leverage the SR system for all kinds of amazingly innovative things like the AstroTracer and the user-selectable AA simulator. I'd put the Pentax designers, from ergonomics, to menu design, to the camera itself, up against anybody's. If having the SR in the body made a lot of sense to you and is one of the reason you picked Pentax, then pat yourself on the back. You picked the winning horse. And based upon my experience and what I see in the specs and (so far in practice) the K-3 II has the potential to be objectively called the Ultimate APS-C DSLR on the planet for versatility and image quality. On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: > Darren, can you please enlighten me and indicate - what size of print would > be necessary for the common viewer to look at it and say - "hmmm, I think > that this picture is more pleasant to look at than that one"? > > Naturally, I don't mean to say that the new technology does not better the > old one or that Pentax makes bad gear. However, I am still perfectly happy > with my good old K-5. > > Not long ago, I has a picture of mine printed 40x60 cm (<-- notice, cm, not > inch) from 12 MP Ricoh GXR shot at rather high ISO handheld at night with > Nokton 40/1.4 at f/1.8, if my memory does not fail me. It looks so good, > that I have absolutely no desire for any kind of upgrade of my gear. I think > it will be a waste of my money, energy and time, as personally me - I will > not be able to extract any reasonable technical improvement over my current > gear. Doubtless, it will make me feel good, though. > > Ok, back to my lurking. > > Boris > > On 10/23/2015 5:59, Darren Addy wrote: >>> >>> I must resist the temptation of purchase. >> >> Why? YOLO! >> >> > > > -- > 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. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- 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.