A sensor and a noise

[Donald B]

I don't think so

If you look at the blocks of red and black in the k7 Vs the d7100 the K7 is blotchier with more noise and less data.

With nearly half as many pixels to work with this is disastrous for a converter, Unlike you they can't 'recognize' the image and fill the gaps from memory partially ignoring noise obliterated data.

From your example above I'd expect the d7100 to be able to recover detail 3X-4X finer than the k7 can at any ISO.

Quite impressive when it has twice the pixel density and smaller photo sites.

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d7100 left quite impressive LOL ? iso 100 200% crop

cheers don



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feel free to post a 100% crop from one of your cameras.



100% crop

Pentax K7, Panasonic fz150, Olympus XZ1, my main toys.

I bite here’s 100% so what now and what does this prove ?

Nothing because your photo is 3x larger in size and 5x larger file ? and no data attached.

cheers don

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[Donald B]

seems you shot with the d800 ? so I thought id up the quality and stuck a 50mm prime on the k7 for another shot of my daughter and resized both for a guestimate on size. highly accurate LOL.

cheers don





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[Ian Stuart Forsyth]

seems you shot with the d800 ? so I thought id up the quality and stuck a 50mm prime on the k7 for another shot of my daughter and resized both for a guestimate on size. highly accurate LOL.

cheers don





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It was shot with the k10d LOL and hey what was the point of this exercise ? LOL ? LOL?

and you know the meaning of CR material

and also why would you blow up the photo just to compare it.

A twisted little life you live in

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[kitsios_spyros]

Audrius, LR3 was a clear improvement vs LR2 for my files, both raw and jpeg in terms of noise handling. LR3 came close to results from stand alone NR programms, so close that it did not make too much sense for me to use another programm additionally to LR3 nor NR.

As I see from other photographers, these programms have also improved the last couple of years, but K5 series cameras are great at high ISOs and I use my K10 at or below ISO 400.

My LR5 now, I just love my K10d more.

This is my experience.

 

[JimBim]

Audrius, LR3 was a clear improvement vs LR2 for my files, both raw and jpeg in terms of noise handling. LR3 came close to results from stand alone NR programms, so close that it did not make too much sense for me to use another programm additionally to LR3 nor NR.

As I see from other photographers, these programms have also improved the last couple of years, but K5 series cameras are great at high ISOs and I use my K10 at or below ISO 400.

My LR5 now, I just love my K10d more.

This is my experience.

 

[Donald B]

seems you shot with the d800 ? so I thought id up the quality and stuck a 50mm prime on the k7 for another shot of my daughter and resized both for a guestimate on size. highly accurate LOL.

cheers don





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It was shot with the k10d LOL and hey what was the point of this exercise ? LOL ? LOL?

you just answered it.

and also why would you blow up the photo just to compare it.

its a gearhead forum isn't it, doesn't everyone on this site compare pixels ?

its nice to compare real life photos rather than testing sites. don't have a lot of faith after hireing a second shooter using a d7100 the output was crap. camera was sooooooo slow.

cheers don

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[Donald B]

seems you shot with the d800 ? so I thought id up the quality and stuck a 50mm prime on the k7 for another shot of my daughter and resized both for a guestimate on size. highly accurate LOL.

cheers don





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It was shot with the k10d LOL and hey what was the point of this exercise ? LOL ? LOL?

A twisted little life you live in

sdm1

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The Camera is only a tool, photography is deciding how to use it.
The hardest part about capturing wildlife is not the photographing portion; it’s getting them to sign a model release

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[Donald B]

seems you shot with the d800 ? so I thought id up the quality and stuck a 50mm prime on the k7 for another shot of my daughter and resized both for a guestimate on size. highly accurate LOL.

cheers don





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Pentax K7, Panasonic fz150, Olympus XZ1, my main toys.

It was shot with the k10d LOL and hey what was the point of this exercise ? LOL ? LOL?

and you know the meaning of CR material

sorry it wasn't in your gallery, must have compared the wrong one ?, no harm intended

cheers don

and also why would you blow up the photo just to compare it.

A twisted little life you live in

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The Camera is only a tool, photography is deciding how to use it.
The hardest part about capturing wildlife is not the photographing portion; it’s getting them to sign a model release

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Pentax K7, Panasonic fz150, Olympus XZ1, my main toys.