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New Information on K3III

Started May 5, 2021 | Discussions thread
Kobie M-C
Kobie M-C Contributing Member • Posts: 701
Re: New Information on K3III
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Mark Ransom wrote:

The Squirrel Mafia wrote:

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4571492

^ There was a previous thread about this.

So the question is, how did they manage a score that's better than perfect? They have some kind of super-secret NR going on, they won't describe it and they won't let you turn it off or bypass it.

It's signal processing that they have going on which happens to include NR as well, but there's more to it than just straight NR. Color correction at high ISO is also part of the signal processing. I just did a test comparing ISO from 100 - 1.6 million. (I skipped 12,800 by accident and went from 10,000 -25,600) between jpeg at default camera NR settings and DNG raw. The amount of detail the raw maintains is quite amazing and doesn't smear at high ISO how the jpegs do. The jpegs also seem to drop the red/magenta tone higher up in the ISO chain  (25,600). Loss of detail was much less evident with the raw files in comparison.

I'll upload them to my Flickr account tomorrow so you can all have a look.

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