RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: After More Than Half a Year, DPR's Half-baked Review(s) on the K-5II and IIs are Published!

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

After More Than Half a Year, DPR's Half-baked Review(s) on the K-5II and IIs are Published!

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/6059494336/review-in-progress-pentax-k-5-ii-and-k-5-ii-s

I wonder if they would complete the review(s) before that the camera(s) are discontinued! :-o

Meanwhile, it is found that the K-5II has a rather weak AA filter, whilst the K-5IIs has none, e.g.:-

(Above: Left: Image from the K-5II; Right: from K-5IIs.)

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zosX · 624 weeks ago

If the d7100 is any indication the moire should be even more minimized at 24mp. I'm on the fence about the filter. Yeah you get more fine detail without it, but take a regular k-5 raw and sharpen it in post and it looks equally sharp but lacking some of the finer details. The filter is a tad stronger on the k-5 than the k-7 I think. It seems that way from the files I look at at least. Maybe it is just a slight difference in sensors. The flipside is that without the filter, some of that fine detail is actually false detail too due to interpolation. I don't like moire though and I don't want to spend time finding it in post. Either way I'm pretty happy with my k-5 for the moment and when/if a k-3 shows up, I'll like want to take the plunge eventually. If its anything like the d7100, it has me thinking that if pentax does a FF 24mp isn't going to cut it for me. Also I really wonder how many of the old primes will hold up on say a 36mp FF sensor...

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kadajawi · 624 weeks ago

Couldn't there be an automatic moire filter? Like color noise is filtered out. Maybe one of the next Lightroom versions will add it, when there are more and more filter-free cameras out there.

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RiceHigh 110p · 624 weeks ago

Honestly speaking, the original K-5, with a proper AA filter, with appropriate sharpening and processing in RAW, is the proper way to go! That is, no moire appears but yet with great sharpness!

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jaad75 · 624 weeks ago

Sharpening always increases noise and destroys true detail. So you're getting more noise and less true detail with "comparable" sharpness - is that what you choose? Moire appears with regular filter as well (as you can see above), but it's just slightly less common. Frankly, I don't have even one picture ruined by it and I didn't have to post process it on any important photo.

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yeez · 624 weeks ago

Even if one gets some moire on images, the problem can easily be solved, if using Lightroom (for example).

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jaad75 · 624 weeks ago

That's not true. K-5II has pretty regular AA filter, K-30 has a weak one and K-5IIs has none. The difference in resolution is huge: http://translate.google.pl/translate?hl=en&sl...
30% more over regular K-5II (and K-5 "classic" which scores exactly the same) is a serious gain.

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Tosser McHonesty · 624 weeks ago

"The difference in resolution is huge" - No it isn't. stop spouting bullshit

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jaad75 · 624 weeks ago

So 67 lpmm vs. 51 lpmm at the best aperture is not huge in your vocabulary? It's more than 30% from the same sensor. When you compare the lens and one gives you 30% higher MTF than another, it's considered to be in completely different class and probably costs much more.