Originally posted by DSims When you say sharpness is lost, compared to what? The JPGs? Other camera's RAW files? There must be something you're qualitatively measuring against.
Compared to RAW to RAW ISO:3200 with what I think is the direct contender T4i to bad DPreview want to put it on a superior level because the price certainly is not, but also would be nice to see it on that level because with the dynamic range that it offers, and the price point must score A very great price-value rate..
Here are some crops i made this are default camera values with Luma noise at 0 and sharpen at 0 for color noise I left the default values of 25
I didn't resize the 18mp sensor because as you know there happen some scale and will lead to a sharper pic.
Look at this one, the dime for example and the letters. T4i on the left and K-30 on the right
On this one. check out the number of the day 15, and the day, also on the watch background you can see the artifacts that Noise reduction in camera are prone to produce.
T4i on the Left side, K30 on the right side.
Check out the texts on the batt's T4i on the left and K-30 on the right
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K-30 on the left and T4i on the right check out all the edges on that stamp.
T4i on the left and K-30 on the right again the letters,and see the blurry on the Q , that kind blurry is like the one appears when we use to much NR
And the final part more controversial I may say..
T4i on the left and K-30 on the right check out the thread rolls, ofcourse there are cleaner but the edges are softer and also the thread itself. And look at the bottom text it's completly blurry
Sure, the lens and DoF play a huge part on this.. But the K-30 was tested with the smc PENTAX-D FA 50mm F2.8 MACRO @ F8 and the T4i with EF50mm f/1.4 USM @ F8 But a Macro Lens had always been sharper than a traditional prime lens, so I don't get it..
So.. what could be the reason for this kind of blurry/softness?