Re: Pixel-peek (you know you want to) K-5 vs K-5iis
On 24/10/2012 1:48 PM, Darren Addy wrote: I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide if that makes it worth the price of an upgrade from your K-5. I believe that most people will be putting more emphasis on its AF capabilities, as compared to the K-5, before deciding. But I think I'm going to remain happy with my K-5 for a long time to come. I have one of the K5s that has completely useless AF in low tungsten light, so for me, the K5II series might well be worth it if it actually works properly. However, I'll sit this one out for a while and see if Ricoh has fixed the other dozen or so points of failure that plagued the K5, and also to see if they come up with something that has the 24mp Sony sensor. -- William Robb -- 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.
Pixel-peek (you know you want to) K-5 vs K-5iis
Don't know if you've seen this already or not, but here is a comparison of a Japanese Yen note photographed with the same lens (FA 31mm f1.8 AL Limited) on a K-5 and then with a K-5iis K-5 http://pentax.briefing-paper.com/1121 Posted in May K-5iis http://pentax.briefing-paper.com/1864 Posted today If you are like me, the first thing that will hit you is the color difference. At first I assumed that they were taken side-by-side on the same day, but the fact that they were taken 5 months apart makes me wonder about the light conditions (color) that each was taken under. The color of the K-5 is much more pleasing, to my eye. The K-5iis image is clearly sharper (read the text that wraps around the starburst in the upper right) but one might argue the K-5 is sharp enough. The bottom photo on each page is with extra sharpness (in camera). I put the images side by side in a single photoshop image so I could do some comparing. The extra sharpness K-5 image beats the zero sharpness K-5iis (to my eye). The commentator on the page (Google Chrome translation) says the same thing in reverse: With a sense of resolution (sharpness 0) normal state, there seems to be almost the same degree of proficiency and extra sharpness +1 in K-5. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide if that makes it worth the price of an upgrade from your K-5. I believe that most people will be putting more emphasis on its AF capabilities, as compared to the K-5, before deciding. But I think I'm going to remain happy with my K-5 for a long time to come. -- 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.
Re: Pixel-peek (you know you want to) K-5 vs K-5iis
No pixel peeping there. The images are only 718 pixels on each side. Hard to determine anything on the basis of such mall images, although I did compare the two f4 images, and while the color varies greatly (no color space assigned), one does appear to be somewhat sharper than the other. Pul On Oct 24, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: Don't know if you've seen this already or not, but here is a comparison of a Japanese Yen note photographed with the same lens (FA 31mm f1.8 AL Limited) on a K-5 and then with a K-5iis K-5 http://pentax.briefing-paper.com/1121 Posted in May K-5iis http://pentax.briefing-paper.com/1864 Posted today If you are like me, the first thing that will hit you is the color difference. At first I assumed that they were taken side-by-side on the same day, but the fact that they were taken 5 months apart makes me wonder about the light conditions (color) that each was taken under. The color of the K-5 is much more pleasing, to my eye. The K-5iis image is clearly sharper (read the text that wraps around the starburst in the upper right) but one might argue the K-5 is sharp enough. The bottom photo on each page is with extra sharpness (in camera). I put the images side by side in a single photoshop image so I could do some comparing. The extra sharpness K-5 image beats the zero sharpness K-5iis (to my eye). The commentator on the page (Google Chrome translation) says the same thing in reverse: With a sense of resolution (sharpness 0) normal state, there seems to be almost the same degree of proficiency and extra sharpness +1 in K-5. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide if that makes it worth the price of an upgrade from your K-5. I believe that most people will be putting more emphasis on its AF capabilities, as compared to the K-5, before deciding. But I think I'm going to remain happy with my K-5 for a long time to come. -- 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.
Re: Pixel-peek (you know you want to) K-5 vs K-5iis
The size of the cropped image is irrelevant if it is an actual pixel size image (which they are). The FA31 is not a macro lens. : ) They've just saved you a lot of time and bandwidth over downloading the full image (and also made it practical to put them side-by-side on screen). -- 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.
Re: Pixel-peek (you know you want to) K-5 vs K-5iis
It doesn't really prove much IMO. Without controlling for variables such as lighting, distance, focus, microfocus adjustment, it's just two pictures of a note. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: The size of the cropped image is irrelevant if it is an actual pixel size image (which they are). The FA31 is not a macro lens. : ) They've just saved you a lot of time and bandwidth over downloading the full image (and also made it practical to put them side-by-side on screen). -- 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. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.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.
