I know there's been a lot of talk about the K-7's ISO issues and many of you would be more than content to bury the subject, if not, perhaps the K-7 itself. I really needed to word an inquiry to my specific needs. I'd like to know really how bad the K-7 is at Noise control. It's funny how I never heard anything about this issue until long after it was released. Now that the K-5 is out, everybody is jumping on that $1400 bandwagon, and knocking the K-7. Quite honestly, I would never have any reason to go over ISO 320 or MAYBE 400, but for my shooting style, you'd have to kick me in the shin to get me to set it higher than 250. I've heard volumes about the K-x's good noise control capability, but frankly, anything over ISO 640 on the K-x, for me, is just too noisy for my high standards. I just hate noise. Sure you can fix all sorts of things on post processing, but that takes time and only improves PERCIEVED quality. I like to get as much right in camera as possible. What i'd like to know, for those of you who may have an idea, is how the K-7 may compare to the K-x in terms of noise when using the same general settings and ISO. Is the samsung sensor in the K-7 so bad, that differences in noise is detectable at the lowest ISO? Or would both sensors be about the same at ISO 100, and the K-7 get worse exponentially from a certain point? This is definitely what i'd be most concerned about. Having a noticeably lower quality picture with the K-7, compared to the K-x at the lowest ISO (I shoot RAW %100 of the time). Also, it's my understanding that pentax "gurus" released an update(s) to help the poor samsung in the K-7 better deal with some of these issues. Have the updates noticeably improved anything?
Last edited by outsider; 04-06-2011 at 10:54 AM.