Originally posted by snake Excellent news. Now to see if it's an older or a newer sensor and see how it performs.
Brand new.
That it performs well, you can see from the K3 specs: no more auto ISO limits; no more ISO 80 "cheat". If it were an old one, all those tricks would still be in place.
Now, the DR just goes, from 100 to 51K. Cmon people, read the specs — it is full of obvious things no one cares to see.
Anyway, I have no idea who started this "it's an old sensor" / "must be one from the D7100" stories.
SonyRumors? DPR? DPR wrote some utter rubbish in their preview, they have no idea how to explore the subject without messing around with facts. I still recall their EM1 fiasco preview. Now, they can't even understand what is Pentax and what is Ricoh.
Or was it PF adding some oil as well?
This "sensor issue" is a typical case of a bad, bad, bad journalism that shouldn't happen.
It seems only Imaging Resource can write a decent, interesting and explored piece that makes sense; they have even analysed the vibration of the AA system while DPR is still puzzled about the Ricoh logo on the back of camera!
Last edited by Uluru; 10-12-2013 at 01:58 AM.