That noise right at the top is most telling to me. At least I found it the easiest to see scrolling up and down on my Mac, My reaction: the K5 shot is clearly better but the K7 shot is OK. I'm surprise the difference is not more extreme, given what I've been reading.
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:25 PM, P N Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Boris asked me to provide a direct comparison. So here it is. One pic each > of the same scene from each camera, shot off a tripod with the DA* 16-50 at > f5.6, 1/60th. (Both meters agreed on that exposure.) The FOV varies > slightly, because I turned the zoom ring a bit when removing the lens from > camera one. The K-7 pic is 22mm, the K-5 is 21mm. In addition to one shot > from each, I've combined the two images for direct viewing of both at once. > I've sized the jpegs slightly larger than my normal web pics for better > detail viewing. Both are raws, converted with the default settings of my ACR > softwre. > > The scene is a cluttered part of my basement, with illuminated ( and > dusty:-) foreground objects and deep shadows in the background. In the > shadows are some white surfaces that readily show noise. There's also a hot > highlight in the background -- a light reflected in a mirror. Ugly pics, but > telling examples. Note that the K-5 renders colors warmer and, as Boris > suggested earlier, the unprocessed pic appears to have less contrast. > > K-7 image: > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11920154&size=lg > > K-5 image > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11920153&size=lg > > Both together: > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11920155&size=lg > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
