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Started May 5, 2021 | Discussions thread
DougOB
DougOB Veteran Member • Posts: 3,176
Re: Are these comparisons fair anymore?

bclaff wrote:

Fotoni wrote:

Most of the cameras have noise reduction turned off, but some Pentax cameras have forced noise reduction. Why they are listed as equals in that table? At least put an asterisk mark next to them or something.

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Interesting idea.
On the charts there are symbols to indicate things like noise reduction but the tables doesn't take this into account.
I'll think about this.

When do you qualify it as noise reduction?

Pentax has a history/reputation of getting better results out of a sensor (e.g., on K-5, K-1) than other camera manufacturers (e.g., Nikon, Sony).  This well pre-dates the accelerator chip. So they are doing better signal processing than others.  Is this noise reduction?

In the past this was seen as a selling point, not a concern.

Have they simply upped their processing and with the accelerator chip are simply applying it to varying degrees at different ISOs?

Measurements might suggest that X is going on, but maybe it is Y...

My thoughts,

Doug

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