On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On May 16, 2012, at 6:24 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Paul Stenquist > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On May 16, 2012, at 4:23 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > >> > >>> More strong evidence that a change is in my future. The D800E is > >>> looming large. Sigh. > >>> > >> Nothing to sigh about if you can afford it. They're all just cameras. > > > > I'm sighing because I can't afford it, but kinda need it, or will > > sooner rather than later. > > > > I used to poo-poo the whole FF vs crop debate/fanboy-rant, but not > > anymore. The necessity for raw, clean megapixels becomes clear when > > you start retouching studio shots. > > > I was surprised to read that you're lacking clean raw megapixels, Then I > read further, saw that you're shooting with a K20D, and i all made sense.The > K-5 is a huge improvement over the K30D, particularly in terms of noise. I > do plenty of retouching at pixel level and the K-5 images are extremely > clean. I had noise problems with both the K20D and the K-7, but that's just > a vague memory. To me, a camera with a different mount doesn't count as a > backup. I have to be able to twist the same lens onto a new body if you get > a failure. And I don't want to stop and think about the controls. > > Borrow a K-5 and give it a try. You'll be amazed at the difference.
You've given me some hope, thanks! :-) Not sure I can borrow one, but I'll see what I can manage. > If that can't work for you, I'm probably going to shoot seven or eight > portraits in the studio in the next week or two (assuming the client signs > the estimate). If you wish, I'll send you a RAW file for pixel peeping. Of > course any RAW file that's shot at close to native ISO, studio or outdoors, > can provide a good look at how clean K-5 images are. > > Paul Paul, I'd really like to take you up on that offer. I'm extremely interested to peep a K-5 RAW. Do you work hand-held, by the way? I know that part of my pixel fuzziness is from hand-holding but it's just so hard to use a mono- or tripod in my workflow. I appreciate your feedback, Paul. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
