The web images you're looking at are too low-res to provide any real information in regard to noise levels. I'm surprised that you're wringing your hands over low-res web images produced with 0.2 firmware. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Joseph Tainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "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
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