Originally posted by Ray Pulley The banding you see in the high ISO image above looks nothing like the green/purple streaking seen in some K10D shots, but you are right to be so alarmed about the K20D ISO 6400 banding and bad noise in the pre-production shots above.
Sell all of your Pentax gear now while the Eeekbay prices are still ridiculously high!
Ray
Please, don't weep, please, don't cry...
We will shoot alarmists under war's laws.
It's joke.
But...To say seriously...
It's silly to discuss ISO6400 and make such loud conclusion
The real quality pictures of any camera are from ISO 100 till 400.
And useable 800 and 1600 is good bonus. To talk about good ISO3200 or 6400 is nonsense.
Especially, about jpeg samples without exif with beta firmware.
Who cares of ISO6400???
All talks of Sony/Nikon fans about good ISO800 of Sony 12 MP APS-C are just talks.
It's really a bit better than Sony 10 MP APS-C, but not better than ISO800 of 6 MP.