11-27-2010, 09:24 AM
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Great camera. You can order it with or without AA filter.
Here's a quote by Falk Lumo: "[url="http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/103935-pma-australia-speaks-21mp-pentax-6.html#post1072295"]But as long as uneducated photographers cry for a weak or no AA filter the industry will listen and give us dirty colors in fine textures. Thank's everybody.[/url]" In the same post he says "No AA filter means lot's of ugly color moiré and artifacts. The appearant softness from an AA filter is easily removed with an USM radius 0.5 filter.".
It would be great if he could join this discussion or have a chat with Klaus.
I don't know about others but I'd love to hear more from Klaus about justifying his statements about the K10D vs the K-5. It still doesn't add up for me.
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I'm already discussing with him under the hood.
A USM of 0.5 produces sharpening halos and increased noise as well as reduced (unrecoverable) micro contrast. This is hardly a non-lossy approach and whether this is any better than a rare false color pattern (of a weak AA filter) is debatable. It is, of course, a matter of taste whether you'd like to go left or right here. Frankly the industry should simply offer two, possibly three versions of a camera with different AA filters setups - they do so in the 645D, fine, do it for consumer DSLRs as well, please. The extra production costs for this would be next to zero and consumers could simply choose according to their preferences.
Great camera. You can order it with or without AA filter.
Here's a quote by Falk Lumo: "[url="http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-news-rumors/103935-pma-australia-speaks-21mp-pentax-6.html#post1072295"]But as long as uneducated photographers cry for a weak or no AA filter the industry will listen and give us dirty colors in fine textures. Thank's everybody.[/url]" In the same post he says "No AA filter means lot's of ugly color moiré and artifacts. The appearant softness from an AA filter is easily removed with an USM radius 0.5 filter.".
It would be great if he could join this discussion or have a chat with Klaus.
I don't know about others but I'd love to hear more from Klaus about justifying his statements about the K10D vs the K-5. It still doesn't add up for me.
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I'm already discussing with him under the hood.
A USM of 0.5 produces sharpening halos and increased noise as well as reduced (unrecoverable) micro contrast. This is hardly a non-lossy approach and whether this is any better than a rare false color pattern (of a weak AA filter) is debatable. It is, of course, a matter of taste whether you'd like to go left or right here. Frankly the industry should simply offer two, possibly three versions of a camera with different AA filters setups - they do so in the 645D, fine, do it for consumer DSLRs as well, please. The extra production costs for this would be next to zero and consumers could simply choose according to their preferences.