AlunFoto wrote: > > A lovely shot - but then the K5 with one of your limited lenses would > surely > > have done as good a job... > > > > So don't let the red mist descend and get too carried away. The > pusher's > > "free go" is always the one that hooks you! > > Thanks for the sobering words, Chris. > > Actually, the K-5 _is_ doing a decent job, but not quite up to the > standard of the 645D. > > You see, this Pentax salesperson of mine is a clever guy. Very clever. > I've had a K-5 with me too, these days. The 31mm ltd. on the K-5 has > the same horizontal AOV as has the 55mm on 645D, so I did a > head-to-head comparison. I shot this scene from a sturdy tripod: > > http://www.alunfoto.no/temp/645Night.jpg (300 kb) > > at f/11 and ISO 100 for max resolution on both cameras, and extracted > the centre 760 pixels (or thereabouts) from both: > > http://www.alunfoto.no/temp/Untitled-1.jpg (460 kb) > > No sharpening has been applied. There is a colour difference between > the two despite identical WB, so I assume I have to do something about > camera calibration in Lightroom (v2.7) to get it sorted. Just haven't > figured that one out yet, so please ignore. :-) > > But the detail. Look at the rendering of detail in the hoarfrost on > the twigs and the detail contained in the shadowed tree in the > background.
So if you want to do serious cropping or print a 6ft x 4.5ft print, then the 645 is for you. A bargain :-) Chris -- 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.
