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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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Don't you think this pale colour could be due to the model??
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Barbarosa · 745 weeks ago

great, go canon, You don't have to wait just go, go go
The skin tone is fantastic in fact. If you really prefere 60D result I am afraid you nead a monitor calibration...
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.
Skin tones are really good.
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 · 745 weeks ago

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

I think RIcehigh could get more pageviews on ranting Canon than Pentax.
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....
I see very sharp, bright & detailed pics!

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