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The K3 III in the comparison tool

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James O'Neill Veteran Member • Posts: 6,117
Re: The K3 III in the comparison tool
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hikerdoc wrote:

Is the issue DPR, or is the issue ACR assignment of specific default adjustments on import?

It's a little bit of both. DPR will say, if you reset the camera to its defaults,  and take an out of camera JPEG, or a RAW and process it in the same program without changing any settings, then that gives a good indication of the what the camera's image is like.  (With the kit lens, under artificial light, indoors, on a tripod, shooting a still life).

Anyone who has  used a Pentax knows the cameras, by default, apply the least sharpening of any brand, and "defensively under-expose".  It appears the Nikon wants sharpening of +40 and ACR / Lightroom accepts that setting from the RAW file.

People can (and will) argue at length whether camera defaults are a true base line, or if different steps are needed in ACR / Lightroom for each camera to give comparable results. Those of us who go back a long way with DPR will remember the "Canon sharpen a lot, Nikon sharpen a bit, Pentax don't sharpen" arguments 15 years and more ago. If they change their methods it means you can't do a comparison with and old test (it might have been meaningless but changing the method means it is meaningless for sure).

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