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View Comments 1. Comments All 1. Shyrsio On the autofocus bit you are reporting that af points are not visible, this is missleading for the reader to think that they are totally invisible like in the k-x, while in the case of the k-7 they light up red when locked. You may also like. Just posted: Our Pentax K-7 review. Pentax K-7 digital SLR announced and previewed.
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At the upper end of the tonal scale, dynamic range is dictated by the point at which the RGB data "saturates" at values of , , At the lower end of the tonal scale, dynamic range is determined by the point at which there ceases to be any useful difference between adjacent tonal steps. Note the use of the qualifier "useful" in there: While it's tempting to evaluate dynamic range as the maximum number of tonal steps that can be discerned at all, that measure of dynamic range has very little relevance to real-world photography.
What we care about as photographers is how much detail we can pull out of the shadows before image noise becomes too objectionable. This, of course, is a very subjective matter, and will vary with the application and even the subject matter in question. Noise will be much more visible in subjects with large areas of flat tints and subtle shading than it would in subjects with strong, highly contrasting surface texture.
What makes most sense then, is to specify useful dynamic range in terms of the point at which image noise reaches some agreed-upon threshold. To this end, Imatest computes a number of different dynamic range measurements, based on a variety of image noise thresholds.
The noise thresholds are specified in terms of f-stops of equivalent luminance variation in the final image file, and dynamic range is computed for noise thresholds of 1. For most photographers and most applications, the noise thresholds of 0. The image below shows the test results from Imatest for an in-camera JPEG file from the Pentax K-x with a nominally-exposed density step target Stouffer , and the K-x's settings such as Contrast and D-Range settings at their default positions.
Here, we can see that the tone curve shows pretty good gradation in the highlights and the shadows trail off nicely too.
Total dynamic range is good at These results were obtained by using ACR's automatic settings, and we weren't able to do any better with manual adjustment. It's worth noting here is that ACR's default noise reduction settings reduced overall noise somewhat see the plot in the lower left-hand corner relative to the levels in the in-camera JPEG, which would tend to boost the dynamic range numbers for the High Quality threshold. Also, the extreme highlight recovery being performed by ACR here would likely produce color errors in strong highlights of natural subjects.
When it comes to dynamic range and high ISO noise , the K-x did much better than its more expensive sibling, the Pentax K To get some perspective, here's a summary of the Pentax K-x's dynamic range performance, and how it compares to other digital SLRs that we also have Imatest dynamic range data for.
Results are arranged in order of decreasing dynamic range at the "High" quality level. The results shown in the table are interesting. One of the first things that struck me when I Dave initially looked at test data for a wide range of DSLRs, was that here again, purely analytical measurements don't necessarily correlate all that well with actual photographic experience. There's no question that the Fuji S3 Pro once deserved its place atop the list, as its unique "SR" technology did indeed deliver a very obvious improvement in tonal range in the highlight portion of the tonal scale relative to competing models of its day.
Amazing that it's now surpassed by even consumer-level models using today's technology. I was also surprised to see the analytical results place the original Olympus E as highly as they did, given that our sense of that camera's images was that they were in fact noisier than those of many other DSLRs that we looked at.
In the other direction, I was quite surprised to see the Nikon D2x place as low on the listings as it did, given that we found that camera's shadow detail to be little short of amazing. One thing that's going on here though, is that we test each camera at its base ISO setting, which should produce best-case noise levels. This is in fact what many photographers will be most interested in, but it does perhaps place some of the Nikons like the D40 at a disadvantage, as their lowest ISO setting is , as compared to the ISO settings available on most other models.
When it comes to the Pentax K-x, as noted above, its somewhat low scores for camera JPEGs reflect Pentax' decision use slightly high contrast and sharpening at its default settings. The chart above shows consolidated results from spatial frequency response measurements in both the horizontal and vertical axes.
The "MTF 50" numbers tend to correlate best with visual perceptions of sharpness, so those are what we focus on here. The corrected numbers are slightly below what we'd expect from a megapixel DSLR, though not too far off the mark.
To see what's going on, refer to the plots below, which show the actual edge profiles for both horizontal and vertical edges, in both their original and corrected forms.
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