Re: 11 pages of K-3 images

2013-11-04 Thread Zos Xavius
There's not enough in these pictures to draw any conclusions. The 1600 shot looks pretty good. The jpeg engine is smearing a bit though, but tons of detail is being retained. The chroma noise in the shadows looks troubling, but that's nothing that can't be fixed in post. I wouldn't pass any judgeme

Re: 11 pages of K-3 images

2013-11-04 Thread Mark Roberts
Bill wrote: >Lets also not forget that downsampling the 24mp image to 16mp tends to >reduce apparent noise as well. Not very much, though. Ctein wrote about this a couple of years ago when 24MP full-frame cameras started to hit the market. You need about a 50% reduction in *linear* resolution to

Re: 11 pages of K-3 images

2013-11-04 Thread Jack Davis
Link... - Original Message - From: Bill To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Cc: Sent: Monday, November 4, 2013 2:40 PM Subject: Re: 11 pages of K-3 images On 03/11/2013 9:01 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Don't know what you're looking at. The ISO 51,200 image of a night skyline

Re: 11 pages of K-3 images

2013-11-04 Thread Bill
On 03/11/2013 9:01 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: Don't know what you're looking at. The ISO 51,200 image of a night skyline on page 7 is presentable. The ISO 3200 version of the same shot shows little noise. The ISO 1600 BW street scene on page 2 is noise free. All very encouraging. Of course nois

Re: 11 pages of K-3 images

2013-11-03 Thread Paul Stenquist
Don't know what you're looking at. The ISO 51,200 image of a night skyline on page 7 is presentable. The ISO 3200 version of the same shot shows little noise. The ISO 1600 BW street scene on page 2 is noise free. All very encouraging. Of course noise levels are highly dependent on rendering tec

11 pages of K-3 images

2013-11-03 Thread Darren Addy
http://pentax.photoble.net/?s_cat01=&camera=PENTAX+K-3&lens=&act=DSP As I suspected, you may want to hang on to your 16MP Pentax DSLRs if high ISO noise is important to you. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listin