"Firmware was said to be 0.2....Folks did not see any appreciable noise in the sample prints. Considering these were based on v0.2 firmware, they were impressed."
ISO 1600 images can be found here, presumably taken with Firmware 0.20: http://www.pbase.com/ohyva/gx10_samples Downloading the full-size originals, then looking at them at Actual Pixels, I am not encouraged. I reduced the noise in Noise Ninja, which improved the images greatly. But then I tried to give them moderate sharpening with nik Sharpener Pro, and the images looked just terrible--worse than the originals. This is the problem with high noise: one can't sharpen. Prints are meaningless if we are not told how the images were processed. My conclusion is that we still have no information about how the K10D will perform at higher ISO settings. I am prepared for the camera to be unuseable above ISO 400. But the images at this link were taken with the Samsung. Optimistically, maybe the problem was that the lens was mounted wrong. Joe -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
