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Pentax K-5 II / IIs Review

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Here is a landscape photo with the advantage that cacti cannot sway in the wind! The lens used was the smc Pentax-FA 77mm F1.8 Limited. The images were shot in RAW at ISO 100 and converted to JPG in Photoshop with brightness increased by +20. No sharpening was applied to the first set of four and unsharp mask 100%, redius 1, threshold 0 plus added contrast (+20) was applied to the second set of four images.

Click on a thumbnail to download a full res (100% crop) JPG (2 MB files):

	Pentax K-5 IIs	Pentax K-5
F5.6 no sharpening
F13 no shapening
F5.6 sharpened contrast +20
F13 sharpened contrast +20

Here is a second landscape also shot with the smc Pentax-FA 77mm F1.8 Limited. The images were shot in RAW at ISO 100 and converted to JPG in Photoshop; no sharpening was applied to the first set of four and unsharp mask 100%, redius 1, threshold 0 was applied to the second set of four images.

Click on a thumbnail to download a full res (100% crop) JPG (6 to 7 MB files):

	Pentax K-5 IIs	Pentax K-5
F5.6 no sharpening
F11 no sharpening
F5.6 sharpened
F11 sharpened

The following scene was again shot with the 77mm lens at ISO 100 in RAW, converted in Photoshop with no other processing than some cropping. We suggest that you download the images (about 5 MB each) and apply contrast and sharpening to your liking.