Originally posted by K-9 This Yvon Bourque guy is saying the K-5 announcement will be official by Monday at 10AM EST time:
Link Why do I post here (even in this thread) if exactly the same information is then cited from elsewhere? This was my post:
Originally posted by falconeye The Pentax press release embargo date is Monday Sep 20 4pm CEST (which is 10am EDT I think). However, the Photokina press tour is Sep 20 10am CEST for German journalists and the few German journalists w/o NDA could start reporting right afterwards. The Intn'l Photokina press tour starts after lunch though. The Photokina officially opens the day after, Sep 21.
Moreover, I can confirm that Pentax will bring a K-5 to Cologne. So, prototypes do exist but that's a known fact anyway.
Besides the announcement time, I additionally disclosed that some writers will be able to beat the official announcement date by about 5 hours.
Originally posted by Adam Hidden content may not be quoted
What forum feature is this? Anyway ISO can be marketed arbitrarily high.
First, Pentax applies RAW NR to ISO
above 1600 which is a pitty because newer sensors won't need it and an ISO claim as high as this tells me that they continue the practice. Second, even at ISO 819.200, the images don't turn out black. So, marketing can label their cameras with any ISO below one million they want. It's just another int in a firmware array ...
And 50k just corresponds to the 100k practice with newer FF/APS-H cameras (e.g., the 1DmkIV). So, I was wondering anyway
A real innovation would be hardware binning and a bit of software in video and offering ISO 100k in video which then still would look rather noise free. Video in 720p at ISO 102.400 would look like a 100% crop at ISO 6400. Add a bit of temporal noise reduction and you would get almost noise free video at ISO 102.400. That would be worth a "what if" post ...