Originally posted by Oakland Rob I have a K-1ii and I agree with much of the review. Sorry.
Users here have found the same issues with NR on higher ISO images. And the handheld PS isn't that big a deal. And the video is crap (although I suspect no one who buys the camera cares).
EDIT: oops. I didn't realize they used different lenses. The center has different results than the edges re the less sharp ii vs i. If you go to the dynamic range part of the review and compare the test shot vs K-1 the results differ widely depending on where on the image you look; lower right is much better on K-1 but other parts are the same or even favor the K-1ii. Lower left is quite different than upper right, eg.
Yep, we don't discover now the pro and cons of the "accelerator" unit but this review is real garbage. Settings, softwares, lenses... all is different between new and old k-1 and also between some scenes of the new one.
I downloaded the 12800 DNG shots (sadly no PEF from DPR), opened in DCU 5.8.1, removed all camera processing settings (D-Range, lens correction, NR, sharpening, etc.), set the same picture style (Bright) , aligned the exposure, saved in TIFF sRGB.
You can download from here:
K-1 Mk I with FA77 - ISO 12800 K-1 Mk II with DFA50 MACRO - ISO 12800
Same with the only 100 ISO DNG shot... here there also another difference, MkII has a DNG, MKI has a PEF. Here the TIFF:
K-1 Mk I Pixel Shift with FA77 - ISO 100 K-1 Mk II Pixel Shift with DFA50 MACRO - ISO 100
Added TIFFs from ISO 800 DNG, that is the first ISO value after RAW-NR enable:
K-1 Mk I with FA77 - ISO 800 K-1 Mk II with DFA50 MACRO - ISO 800
Result is less noise and little less details, and we do not know if this is due to DPR's method, but we are very very far from DPR comparison tool and evaluations (above all about colors).
In my opinion RICOH has reduced the wrong noise, the one that gives a sense of resolution, they should have reduced the chroma noise instead.