Originally posted by ogl Regarding the lens, just put the studio comparison tool at ISO100 and look in the corners, especially top-right. There something wrong with the lens. It's certainly not on the level of the 77mm they used for the K-1.
PF has not published its review yet, but Adam's comments indicate that there is a loss of detail. I suppose you are referring to the PF about the ISO performance article, which doesn't show the same destructive effect. I actually agree that it should be selectable, but I also think that at 36mp, there is plenty of detail for most purposes anyway, so most people will welcome the lower noise level.
Your reading of DPR's Dynamic Pixel Shift articles is different from mine. I don't take their commentary as positive at all. I think they are saying the it is not worth waiting the extra processing time for. But then at the same time, they seem to be suggesting that it's worth spending time in post processing instead. I personally would like to have this feature in my camera, and I would probably use it for taking pictures of museum exhibits or architectural details.
To continue my mini-rant at DPR, what has led me against trusting their reviews are a few points.
1. The people they have brought on since moving to Seattle are not as articulate and more opinionated, with Sam Spencer being the exception. Maybe it's my bias as a Brit, but I preferred the less attention-seeking style they had before.
2. They have shortened their review format by removing a lot of the observational detail. Now it seems to be centered around a handful of tests, and a ton of opinions. Some subjectivity is fine, but without the detail, you can't judge whether you would share that opinion yourself. I bought into Pentax largely on the strength of Lars Rehm's review of the K20D. He didn't say it was the greatest camera ever, but I felt like I knew exactly what I was getting into. That's gone now.
3. They have so much sponsored content and get so much corporate hospitality from certain companies these days, I don't see how they can claim to be objective. The real eye-opener for me was when all the camera reviewers came back with camera reports from a Sony-sponsored trip to Iceland a while back. One of the rumor site was reporting that Sony is having another "Appreciation Trip" this month, so don't be surprised if you see a load of reports from Monterrey in a couple of weeks. They will claim to maintain their objectivity, but there's a reason why companies use this kind of corporate hospitality, and a reason why many companies (mine included) have strict rules to stop their staff accepting excessive gifts.
The conclusion to all this is that I'm looking forward to the PF review for a more balanced verdict. I won't be buying a K-1 Mark 2, but I've still got my eye on a KP, and the accelerator is one of the big draws for me.
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Originally posted by monochrome What matters or doesn’t matter doesn’t matter. DPR has done its damage and there’s no fighting back. Truly Alinsykite tactics.
I think most Pentax users are used to this by now. It's nothing new. They put more trust in other review sources or have gone already. Also, given that Pentax seems to do about half it's business in Japan, that part of their customers base is immune to it. Few customers in Japan have heard of DPR. They will already have read reviews in the Japanese camera press, which were pretty positive in the case of the K-1 Mark 2.