Hi Falks, thanks for the update.
Originally posted by falconeye According to my measurements, v1.03 brings no significant progress IF the following conditions are met:
Wow, that's bad news. Even in the conditions you list, AFAIC, there shouldn't be such a discontinuous jump in the choice of focus plane. Unless the colorimetric sensor really has such a sharp transition to blindness, a discontinuous behaviour would still point to a firmware bug (or a limitation of a correction table size).
Is your set of criteria a positive list only? In other words, I guess that I cannot conclude from it that there is a significant improvement if the background is not bright, right?
Originally posted by falconeye Wrt (3.), I see some positive effect if the camera white balance is set to automatic or tungsten.
Oh dear, would be a shame if the K-5 were relegated to K-r tricks...
(I know that this effect is not confirmed but it seems that this would be a reasonable step to take in cases where the colorimetric sensor isn't useful anymore).
Originally posted by falconeye Maybe, the effect is only noticeable with lenses slower than f/1.8.
Ray Pulley has posted
test shots that show a significant change to the focus plane when using an FA 50/1.4 at EV 2 (<- Sekonic L-358 reading at focus target).
To be honest, overall, that's quite disappointing news...