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Thursday, December 02, 2010

New K-5 Review with Full Real-life Samples (Japanese)

http://ganref.jp/magazines/index/1/0/397

(in Japanese, Google-translated English page here) via Information on Digital Cameras.

Well, as before, I don't like the colour rendition and the image softness, which is still existent even at the lower ISO and that's what really bugs me for the lower IQ and field performance of the K-5. As for the higher ISO images, we see more obvious noise this time. The exposure accuracy is not good neither, the reviewer applied EV compensations most of the time.

Speaking of the K-5, Amazon has offered a discount for the standard 18-55 kit set after the "Black Friday" and the "Cyber Monday". Now the kit is just at some cents less than (US)$1,600 and is yet one dollar cheaper than the K-5 body-only offer! On the other hand, there is no K-5 body (alone) offer at the B&H, as it has been run out of stock.

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All samples are made with 18-55 and 50-200 kit lenses...
1 reply · active less than 1 minute ago
If you want to test the sensor's capacity then use a good lens. The 18-55 is a kit lens... you are never going to really see how the sensor performs.

My suggestion would be one of the limited's for sensor testing. The FA 43 would give one the best indication of sensor resolution etc.
4 replies · active 745 weeks ago
The most lovely aspects of the FA 43 are not about (high) resolution, it's about colour rendition, tonity, 3d effect and bokeh (some like it and some don't and it is also situation dependent, IMO).
I like the FA 50 very much. Do you think the 43 is significantly different?
Yes, the 43 is better. The FA 50 is a bit sharper at f/5.6 and onwards, though.
No, the FA 43 is one of the sharpest lenses Pentax has ever made.

Look to photozone.de for details. The FA 50 1.4, on the other hand, is less sharp than any of the DA limited's.

So you test a camera with a lens that can resolve the sensor. The Kit lens is good for normal viewing, but terrible for pixel peeping.

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