Originally posted by ogl Good resolution and rather mediocre sharpness.
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Haha, okay bro, let's just leave it at that then. What are you expecting from 100% viewing of a Bayer sensor image? What are you even comparing to? As you know, it is impossible for any Bayer sensor to reliably resolve single pixel detail at 100%, that's the nature of the technology, and yet the demosaicing of the K-5 does a pretty good job I think because I can see very small details in the above.
I challenge you to find ANY medium except for 100% on-screen viewing where this supposed sharpness mediocrity would be evident at all. I realize there might be some academic value in saying "camera A is slightly sharper than camera B at the pixel level" but it is really, TRULY irrelevant in any real world situation.
Also: are you actually proposing that a K10D/K200D image upsampled would be "sharper"? Because if so, please post a 10MP image example, upsampled. You do realize that comparing sharpness at 100% has literally no meaning unless the images are upsampled/downsampled to match?
EDIT: Also, for the record, I have a crappy tripod and my focusing is probably a bit off, so I'm not pretending to produce studio-quality results here