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Friday, December 03, 2010

Kazuhisa Nishikawa's K-5 Girl Portrait Samples @ DC Watch



http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/weekend/20101203_410865.html

(in Japanese, Google-translated English page here.)

The lenses used are the excellent FA 43 Limited and the DA* 16-50. Frankly, I am NOT impressed indeed. The skin tone does not look pleasing than my like.. :-( This is really quite an exceptional case amongst most of Kazuhisa's girl photos, which usually look nice to my eyes, no matter technically or artistically! :-) To compare, see what the 60D produced for the last month:-

http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/weekend/20101126_409105.html

Or still unconvinced, just look back at all those photos took by Kazuhisa with the K-7 and K-m previously:-

Kazuhisa Nishikawa's Latest K-7 Samples

Some "Better" K-m Large Size Sample Pictures ;-)
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jviviano · 764 weeks ago

Don't you think this pale colour could be due to the model??
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Barbarosa · 764 weeks ago

great, go canon, You don't have to wait just go, go go
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s@s · 764 weeks ago

The skin tone is fantastic in fact. If you really prefere 60D result I am afraid you nead a monitor calibration...
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ArcticExposure 45p · 764 weeks ago

I'm not going to comment on if the skin tone is good or not, cause I'm at work on an uncalibrated monitor. But from what I could see, these were three different girls, and I'm pretty sure they don't all have the same skin tone, and the light might not be the same either. A million things could case the skin tones to be different, these are not images suitable to judge color tones with.
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OGL · 764 weeks ago

Skin tones are really good.
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david · 764 weeks ago

Have you no shame Rice? Well do you?

I just opened a photo from the Canon shoot and Pentax shoot on my calibrated monitor and zoomed in to 200 percent in photoshop. While the Canon seemed to do a nice job, the Pentax was so much sharper at 200 percent it looked like it was 100 percent magnification.

The colors were good on both, but on the Canon I noticed that halo effect you have been railing against on the Pentax. Meanwhile, no halo on the Pentax shot.

You are blinded by your hatred. The detail I can see in the woman's hand in the Pentax is so great that I wish I had one yesterday. I will admit my bias, but looking at the Canon shot and I don't feel a desire to change my camera, but with the Pentax I want a new one very badly.

Once again, I ask you to switch since you hate Pentax so much because it is affecting how you see reality. To rail on those photos just doesn't make any sense.
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Voice of Reason · 764 weeks ago

Surely it's to do with the differences in the lighting?
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Ying · 764 weeks ago

Rice, you keep bring up that Pentax service sucked and used Hinman's case as an example, well it would seem Hin has changed his mind:
http://www.techtheman.com/2010/10/goodbye-to-pent...
To be fair with CRIS and Pentax Customer Service, they did quite a good job in addressing not only the memory card controller issue, they also addressed two cosmetic problems that I reported to them when I sent my K-x in for service. CRIS fixed the broken chrome strip and they replaced the missing red label in the SR logo. Though the wait was long for 5 1/2 weeks, I felt quite satisfied with the repair and have since regained confidence with both CRIS and Pentax. The unexpected longer wait was mostly attributed to back-order of parts from Pentax Japan and it took about 4 weeks for parts delivery from Pentax Japan to CRIS. And I truly hope what happened to me doesn't happen to another Pentax user and that Pentax Japan can take note in improving the back-ordering of parts from Japan to other countries.
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Ying · 764 weeks ago

So it was repaired to his satisfaction - the speed could be improved, but Pentax is a small manufacturer, parts orders etc are all affected by their manufacuting capacity. This is all part of the deal when you signed up for a Pentax. Just as I understand parts ordering for my SAAB is going to be more difficult and slow than say a TOYOTA.

You can't have everything.

Actually I do hope you continue to be frustrated by your Pentax gear and LEAVE FOR CANON ALREADY!
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DomingoAlibugho · 764 weeks ago

I think RIcehigh could get more pageviews on ranting Canon than Pentax.
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janneman · 764 weeks ago

I think most comments refer to aspects of a picture that have a lot to do with personal preference, difference and monitor calibraryion , whether you use and old fashioned glass screen, LED, LCD LCD backlit....
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Eddie · 763 weeks ago

I see very sharp, bright & detailed pics!

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