Originally posted by Class A
If you make "accelerator unit" processing optional, you attract those who like it without turning anyone away.
No reasonable people are turned away at present, any more than the lower SOC jpeg images being slightly lower resolution from a Pentax.
I know of not one person, who left Pentax because of the accelerator unit. If that was an issue there would have been a lot more people leaving Sony over the star eater problem. I've heard lots of grumbling though, most of it with photographic justification. If it's so bad, why is it so hard to demonstrate?
I was out yesterday with my k-1 under the forest canopy, and had to crank the ISO up to 200. For some reason I got unacceptable noise in one part of the image, which I ended up blurring.
If Pentax as they claim have dropped the noise reduction to be effective even in 100 ISO, I might have changed my processing of that image. My shooting demonstrates the need for the accelerator.
You keep saying there's a downside, yet, I've not seen a single image that demonstrates that. Every image that purported to show there was detail in the un-accelratored image didn't normalize the noise, which made the finished non-accelerator image unacceptable. Actually both images were unacceptable. I need to see a real world justification, where one of the images is one I would use and the other isn't. That would be real. What you're pretending exists in my experience doesn't.
I can't be more emphatic... there is absolutely nothing beyond really bad testing, and disputable micro evidence that would support your case. IMHO the only thing you don't like about the accelerator chip is you know it's there. If you didn't know, you wouldn't see the difference. But the difference for the accelerator cleaning up noise is definite.
But I'm also open to other interpretations. By now you have to know we aren't taking your word for it.
I won't argue for including a feature that is un-necessaary and based on the personal beliefs of a very few people. I have no idea why you keep this alive. So show me... (I won't be holding my breath.)
Prove me wrong, or maybe stop polluting other threads with your misinformation. I'm not on either side of this. I'll change my mind in a heart beat. But not for the crap evidence opposed to the accelerator and the undeniable evidence on every site that does comparison images. I do find the strength of belief bordering on religious for those who have taken up this cause.
Last edited by normhead; 07-23-2020 at 08:29 AM.