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K20D vs. K7 in High-ISO RAW Noise

Started Dec 5, 2011 | Discussions thread
OP Greg Lovern Senior Member • Posts: 1,613
Santa bought a K7

Thanks all, Santa has bought a K7 for US$511.99 with local pickup (no shipping charge), which is the lowest in eBay's current history:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pentax-K-7-14-6-MP-Digital-SLR-Camera-Black-Body-Only-/130611038047?pt=Digital_Cameras&hash=item1e6906475f

http://www.ebay.com/csc/i.html?_nkw=Pentax%20 (K-7%2CK7)%20Body%20-K-5%20-K-r%20-K-x%20-cap%20-armor%20-kx%20-k-x%20-kr%20-k-r%20-k5&rt=nc&LH_Complete=1& dmpt=Digital_Cameras& fln=1& sop=15& trksid=p3286.c0.m283

I pick it up tomorrow.

Comments about the issues are appreciated, but the counts against the K7 are not very important to me:

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The slight difference in noise and DR may be important to some, but too small to be important to me.

-- I don't know whether I'll have the anti-shake blur, but even if I do and even if it is so bad that I can't use anti-shake, most of my shooting is with fast-moving subjects that require fast enough shutter speeds that I don't need anti-shake anyway. And, I've never had a DSLR with anti-shake anyway, so I'm used to making do with the hand-steadying techniques I first learned in the early 1980s with my OM-1. Not to say I've never lost a shot to camera shake, but it's the cause of only a tiny percent of my lost shots. If I could buy a K7 without anti-shake that was even lighter and smaller, I probably would.

In fact, I don't even have anti-shake on my camcorder anymore. The feature went haywire, making the image jump violently up and down as if I was jumping on a trampoline, so I turned the feature off and worked out a way to hold the camcorder very steady.

Overall I think I'll like the K7 much better than the K20D. Thanks again for all the help.

Greg

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