Originally posted by Gimbal The K-5 and the K-1 has been expected to perform similar (at pixel level) ever since it became known that they would have a similar pixel size.
Perhaps you should have explained that to Nicolas - have a look at his Post 106, for instance, where he is certain: "Because of how isos are defined, at the same iso setting, because the FF sensor is 2.3 time bigger its capacity has to be at least 2.3 time bigger than the minimal capacity required for the APSC sensor to expose correctly that sensitivity."
And where was your reply when in Post 103 he declared "There a relation between the sensor size and the signal ratio. If you use the same technology in both sensors, the larger sensor will get less noise because the absolute amoung of light received is greater, that is the signal is greater."
Originally posted by Gimbal Software is unavoidable when it comes to digital photo. You will have to use it and it will affect end result.
The topic is not the amount of the user's postprocessing (which we have seen in the examples above can be badly done) but
the camera's noise performance, @Gimbal.