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About 20 -23 more days.... . . . or not
cat's always are inscrutable. We used to have one that looked just like that, it was called Quidno.
as for the camera, how long do you have to decide?
Maybe because Pentax did a small, modern sensor, pro specced, e-1 like class ergonomics apparently very nice performer camera with a lot of photographic centric options including small nice prime pancakes *and* they are one of the big camera names still *and* they are not Canon nor Nikon?It's funny to see several (former) Olympus users interested in the K-5. It has many qualities I've always admired in my Olympus cameras (E-1 and E-3), but puts a good sensor to the mix. If I'd decided to start schlepping a DSLR again, this one would be high on my list.
The advantage with DNG is that any old version of ACR can handle it. With the proprietary RAW formats, one needs a recent version, since Adobe only updates RAW compatibility for the most recent version. So my Photoshop CS3 opens DNG files from K5 without problems, while it doesn't have a clue about my GH1I have DNG's yes. I think in RAW- or I would hope converters would deal with this. If only the Pentax converter worked but it's so slow/buggy/whatever.
HI Ricardo . . . okay, but actually I have seen it on berries using AWB - and I certainly wasn't suggesting that it was a 'wrong' WB setting . . . just an automatic oneNo, it's not a WB wrong setting. All colors are spot on except those exposed to direct light - reds. The greens and the red on BJ's are great- except the magenta parts.
The tomatoes will be fine, it's mostly on plastic and metals.
- Raist
Oh - I quite agree - I've also pointed out stuff (even had some rectified). But it's usually to do with their criticising stuff rather than the opposite.Well that's dpreview. Normally I can care less for what dpreview says if it doesn't match my direct experience. A simple example: I questioned dpreview findings when the E-3 was reviewed that the memory card speeds were "pedestrian." I noticed they used Sandisk. I had a Lexar 300x and the ram-> memory card store speed were far from pedestrian. Moreover, I found 2 more reviews with my findings and same "continous shooting on buffer full" speeds that were significantly higher than dpreview.
Simon acknowledged they should have tested with the faster card, and was going to, then got sick and swamped with work and never did the tests.
actually, I disagree with that - a very slight magenta imbalance on the red hue may be obvious whereas it won't impact the other colours. Anyway, don't the deal with the colour channels separately with WB?As for the white balance, I normally force set my white balance in daylight. But think about this- if it was a white balance issue why are the colors *except those* spot on? That doesn't make sense.
Ouch . . . but I certainly did ask for it!So I am already shooting with daylight white balance. I have tried both already.
< throws some flames only because you asked >
:ROTFL::ROTFL:PS: Try a red car outside. Metal. Not on an overcast day but on a sunny day.
yes, me too - so were those shots with the standard Daylight setting?Well all-right then but I did try with AWB and forced Daylight. Normally I don't shoot AWB, I force either Daylight, Cloudy, Shade or Tungsten.
When the road melts I shall go in search for sunshine and red cars, but as I say, I've seen it in berries.Yes, you too, except you are shooting red tomatoes and fruit. Very different subjects Jono. The magenta issue I have seen it also with the Panasonic JPEG engine (LX3 happens big time, lesser extent with LX5 and lesser extent with their micro four thirds). Also they don't seem to be under any direct sun light.
Both of those red-shots posted are in Daylight white balance (I couldn't verify looking at the shots in the camera so had to run the super slow Pentax Camera raw converter software to verify. Yup, daylight).