It's really hard to say at this point. All I can say conclusively is that I like the gradation. I haven't seen blocking or noise in shadow areas, even at 1600. The camera seems to provide a file that renders quite nicely. Paul On Nov 26, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Jens Bladt wrote:
> Since many of you guys have seen photographs shot with the K10D, > what can > you say on the subject colour depth? > > www.dpreveiw.com says: > 22 bit Analog to Digital Converter > If accurate this could potentially deliver a very fine number of > gradations, > especially useful in shadow areas. > However don't forget that this will always then be downsampled to > eight bits > per channel for JPEG conversion or stored as 12 bits in RAW. > > How relevant this '22 bit ADC' is to the final image quality is yet > to be > proven??? > > Regards > Jens Bladt > http://www.jensbladt.dk > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.16/551 - Release Date: > 11/25/2006 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
