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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-12-2018, 03:44 AM
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I've said it before in another thread, but having played around with the K-1II's files in Darktable for some considerable time, I believe the detail issue to be largely insignificant in general day-to-day photography, while the superior noise levels are of genuine benefit - even to those with plenty of post-processing noise reduction experience, as the K-1II provides even more headroom for additional noise processing (in my opinion).
If I were buying a full-frame Pentax camera right now, it would most likely be the K-1II...
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-02-2018, 12:50 AM
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That was much of my youth too, and the early part of my career :) I spent a good deal of my pre-teen and early teenage years writing 8080/85, Z80, 6502, 6809 and 68000-series assembly language :p
Absolutely.
If I learn much more from him, I risk incurring tuition fees :lol:
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-01-2018, 02:21 PM
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How the heck do you know all this stuff?! :eek: :lol:
Technology... photography... optical physics... the list seems to go on and on.
If you tell me you have an encyclopedic knowledge of wines too, I'm giving up. There's no way I can compete around here...
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-01-2018, 07:52 AM
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Sadly, there's no such thing as a "free lunch" :p The clarity adjustment takes a certain amount of processing power, and the in-camera systems aren't anything like as powerful as a typical PC. What seems like a simple slider adjustment in post-processing software actually involves a lot of number crunching. Doing the adjustment in-camera is a much slower process.
Again, this is simply a limitation of in-camera JPEG processing... There's only so much you can do with it.
I understand your reasons for not wanting to get bogged down in post-processing, but by setting up and using one or two presets in Lightroom (or similar), you can apply these to all of your photos on import. It's perfectly realistic to have Lightroom do all the work for you, so that all you need to do is import the photos, let Lightroom do its thing, then export them into whatever end product you want (e.g. JPEG). It really needn't be a time-consuming process - in fact, if anyone spends a significant amount of time in Lightroom for each individual image, it really ought to be because they're going for wildly artistic and individual results on a per-photo basis - otherwise, there's something wrong (and/or inefficient) in their workflow...
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-01-2018, 02:48 AM
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If you're shooting JPEG, this is down to the in-camera colour profiling, plus the adjustable settings for contrast and saturation.
If you shoot RAW and post-process in something like Lightroom or Darktable, the colours are down to the camera profile selected (either the camera's embedded profile, or one of those supplied by the software). But, you can tweak the colour, contrast, clarity, tone curve and hue / saturation / luminance of each colour to your taste. It only needs to be done once, then saved as a preset, to give you exactly the colour reproduction you want every time :)
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