Originally posted by rawr No news there. Face detection in LiveView has been a Pentax DSLR feature since 2009 and the K-7.
Face detection working with optical viewfinder AF would be big news with the K-1. (And something that, IMHO, is overdue in Pentax).
Don't know, I never used the K-7 that much, owned the K-5II but never know it has it since I almost never use live view on it, but there you go, learn something new every day.
However it's live view performance is pretty good, seems to be on par as dual pixel Canon bodies and Sony SLTs.
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Originally posted by Quicksand Interesting, thanks.
ISO 204800 looks ... bad. I don't think I'd ever use it. And I have a strong suspicion that in-camera NR was on, because I see a lot of luma noise but not much chroma blotchiness. (The image sure got enpurpled overall, though.)
But 51200 looks pretty good, honestly, for some uses.
I won't bother about ISO 204800, more interested about ISO 3200 to 25600 like.
The most I would usually go for most FF cameras is ISO 6400-8000, I would count how many times I actually went higher than that coz ISO 12800 on most FF cameras I have used before just isn't very good, if I need more birghtness, LR is my friend. However, if a camera's ISO 12800 performance is good then great I will gladly use it, anything above it will depend on how the camera performs. The point is, so far it seems like the claim that the K-1 will have a cleaner ISO than D810 might be true, but again let's how this turns out in the actual production model.