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07-15-2016, 12:15 PM   #151
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QuoteOriginally posted by clackers Quote
Well, a K-1 cleans up better than a K5 II in Lightroom. If you did a resize (remove roughly three out of four pixels to get to 8Mp instead of a downsample), the performance would be the same, though, as you imply.
Wow if you throw away 3/4 of the information of the K1, the K5-II manage to be as good. That's impressive...

I'd say you should change your postprocessing software man. A decent one would never throw up information like that.

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And that's a point the people concerned about "what camera is better at high ISO" tend to ignore. As you're ISO goes up, you Dynamic range goes down. To a certain extent this in compensated for by the fact that in low light there is less contrast in the scene, so you need less dynamic range to capture it. and wishing reason, loss of Dynamic Ranges is correctable in post processing. But in many images it's not the noise that ruins your high ISO image, it's the loss of dynamic range, and uncontrolled light sources creating shadows in odd places.
I have always thought that this is the issue with high iso performance. If you know what you are doing, noise reduction isn't too hard to do, but images just start looking washed out and plasticky after a certain point.
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Ok... I dowloaded a K1 picture at 6400 iso, a raw actually. Same for K5-IIs. I applied exactly the same noise algorithm and processing on both. I resized the K1 image to match the K5-IIs. The raw both come from Imaging Resources and the picture was taken with the same lens. A sigma 70mm macro.

You can see the both crop in attachment. The first one is K5-IIs, the second is K1. I let you judge what look best in practice between the 2.

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It would appear, to these poor, old, bespectacled eyes, gazing at a small, old laptop screen, that the bottom picture has slightly less contrast and perhaps a touch less detail. But I absolutely will not wager any of my meager retirement wages on the observation.

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It would appear, to these poor, old, bespectacled eyes, gazing at a small, old laptop screen, that the bottom picture has slightly less contrast and perhaps a touch less detail. But I absolutely will not wager any of my meager retirement wages on the observation.
The K1 picture lost part of its contrast in pentax forum, it look sharper on my computer. I was thinking it was the focus but no... Pictures at home are 2.5MB and 250kB at Pentax forum... At home the K1 look sharper... I wonder if I shouldn't use flickr instead.

The K5-IIs manage well on highlight were the signal is strong but is lost in shadow details where you can see the effect of noise.: The pattern on the main center subject disappear on the K5-IIs and the noise is more visible on the black of the right bottle.

6400 iso should be a lot, but the lighting is actually good... The performance here more match what you'd get at 1600 iso in low light.

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From flickr this time...

It is funny how Pentax Forum import algorithm managed to destroy the details of the K1 on the previous comparison !!!

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The first 2 capture were representative of a "small" print were a good part of the detail of the K1 is lost. Kind of what DxO does with "print" setting...

But we all know that the noise is the same per pixel... So what would happen if we zoom enough to see the pixels of the K1 to match what a large print would do... So we see for outselve how "it doesn't matter anymore" if you print large enough. Funilly, the difference is actually more visible.

If you had a doubt how much of a difference it does make to apparent noise when you change actual resolution both have much less noise a K5-IIs resolution than K1 and K5-IIs look really terrible at K1 resolution.

K1 100% crop:



K5-IIs enlarged crop to match K1 resolution:



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QuoteOriginally posted by Nicolas06 Quote
If you had a doubt how much of a difference it does make to apparent noise when you change actual resolution both have much less noise a K5-IIs resolution than K1 and K5-IIs look really terrible at K1 resolution.
Pretty bad demosaicing artefacts in both ...
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All I have been able to tell for sure from all of these recent comparisons is that more megapickels results in more detail which allows you to either print larger or crop smaller. We have returned again to the age of film where the size of the negative determined the level of detail, and sometimes tonal range, of a print.

I think we can all safely shake hands all around and agree that a 645Z raw file has more detail than a K-1 file which has more detail than a K-3 file which has more detail than a Q file and so on. I know that most participants in internet forums may not quite be ready for this but the equipment is probably good enough now.

It is probably also pretty safe to say that digital performs as well as film, just a bit differently. While the process for getting to the end result takes somewhat different routes the goal in the end is a photo in the hand, on the wall, or in some digital forum where it can be viewed and appreciated.
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Now a crop after resizing to 8MP both K1 and K5, still 6400 isos:

Funilly there never a case where K5-IIs match K1... neither at 8MP, 16MP or 36MP...

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QuoteOriginally posted by Pioneer Quote
I think we can all safely shake hands all around and agree that a 645Z raw file has more detail than a K-1 file which has more detail than a K-3 file which has more detail than a Q file and so on. I know that most participants in internet forums may not quite be ready for this but the equipment is probably good enough now.
This is as close to an "absolute truth" as I have been able to see in this thread. With that said, we can now move on...
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It's a very limited market in my opinion and I look forward to picking one up for <$1000 in a year or two, new. We'll see.
And you said the D810 was a bargain at 3 grand

Kidding
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So clearly FF is about 30-40% better at shallow depth of field shots, on paper. I have been a professional photographer for over 30 years, I'd be hard pressed to take 2 photographs that could actually show anyone these differences.

I've not know from a quantified standpoint what the difference is, but I'll take your word for it here. Thanks for doing the math, and sharing.


There are many reasons to buy a FF camera, depth of field superiority really just isn't one of them in my opinion and I think the math and practical application back me up. If you can't see the difference, who cares?
In tests where the difference is highlighted, I believe I can see the (rather small) difference. My belief is that I'm not really concerned about those rather small differences, so the FF on that basis really does not add value, for me at least. My conclusion is similar to yours. That said, however, the photos I've seen taken by the K-1 look really, really, good, so there may be other good reasons for the FF. For most of my photos, I'm generally trying to achieve more DOF, not less, so this thin DOF thing that so many here are so crazy-in-love-with is mostly contrary to what I'm trying for.

As a side note, many are considering if they should step up to the FF camera. I must be the only contrarian around here as I'm asking whether I could support a step down to a smaller sensor.

Thanks again for your contributions.
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And you said the D810 was a bargain at 3 grand

Kidding




Ahhh, but the D810 IS a bargain at $3K. There's nothing you can't do professionally with a D810, the K1 is system limited worse than a Sony.


(Actually the biggest bargain out there at the moment is the D500, but that's another topic)


One camera body does not make a system...

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As a side note, many are considering if they should step up to the FF camera. I must be the only contrarian around here as I'm asking whether I could support a step down to a smaller sensor.

Thanks again for your contributions.


Then you throw the Nikon D500 into the mix and things really get strange: A DX camera with high iso performance of FF? Say what?




I wouldn't go any smaller than APS-c. The difference between M4/3 and APS-c is much bigger than any difference between APS-c and FF in my opinion.


But try it and see what you think, that's the only way to know for sure.
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