That's not what the new "K10D" is offering ... you'll just have to wait and see. Hopefully, Aaron and his source are correct about the new feature.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: John Francis > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > optimistic that the 10Mpixel Pentax will do everything i need and > > actually be superior with its in-body AS. And of course the fabled > > mysterious Super Feature. ;-) > > But that, of course, will reduce the resolution to only 5MP ... :-) > > Note that the A20 has this mysterious feature called 'blur reduction', > which cuts the resolution down by a factor of two. From the very > limited description in the press release this doesn't appear to be > all that different from the current Fuji super sensor; for each site > there will be two pixel values recorded - one for the shadows, and > one for the highlights. Pentax are spinning it differently, with > the emphasis on being able to use a high iso (to avoid blur) while > not burning out the highlights. It's also a little different in > implementation - the Pentax sensor appears to be dynamically re- > configurable, while the Fuji sensor has dedicated sensor sites > for each purpose (of two different sizes). > > I'm not convinced this will help that much with avoiding the nasty > quantisation effects that you get in the shadows on digital images; > while a digital sensor at ISO 1600 is better than equivalent film > in the brighter parts of an image, it's still pretty unpleasant > in the shadows. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

