And I have tried my hand and it and I can see it. In fact, at ISO 1600 you can even get some banding! (though it's rare). Equally importantly the shadows don't have much leeway at all. If you have a high contrast/DR scene, lifting the shadow gets you noise.Sorry, but which high end glass for the K5 ?????
Also I do disagree with the ISO1600 statement, I am developing my ORFs in Lr3.3 and/or C1Pro and I absolutely cannot find any noise!
As for Pentax high end glass you have several primes to choose from, and also the DA * Gold lenses.
Ok, here's a little challenge for you then. Get a shot of the E-5 at ISO 6400 *without* noise reduction - or any of the Olympus noise reduction settings. You can do this in Olympus Viewer 2 by getting a RAW. The shot below is ISO 12880- the light is bad fluorescent light (low light). Here's a 2 megapixel shot of it, not a VGA size shot, and this is 1/50 at F4.Just set the parameters right of course! But I have much more details than I had with the K5 (and of course only a DA70 for comparison).
Now, I have applied no tweaking to WB, noise reduction whatsoever. Here's a 100% crop:
Has noise? Sure. Can it still print and look decent? Oh yes. Again, I haven't even tried any noise reduction stunts like Ninja, Nik, Topaz, LR, you name it. Now, can you please try this with the E-5? Feel free to use 1/50 at F2.8 for pure equivalence of DOF and exposure. ISO 6400. Let us know how it goes (and please please, post a link to the shots).
Thanks in advance.
Hey, I think you are the one who brought up the K-5 comparison. Just trying to clear things up. Lacking the AA doesn't get the E-5 better than but on par with in resolution. The rest is the same old sensor. Keep that in mind. The E-5 does fantastic at low ISO but once the ISO cranks up....Again and again, I think all this trying to argue about same or similar IQ from the other cameras is just useless, as the main issue is the AA filter which is almost not there in the E5.
Certainly Olympus lenses are fantastic.
- Raist
PS: here's the typical shared E-5 shot size (sometimes smaller, this one at least is SVGA)
Looks almost noiseless except for the chroma noise which wouldn't be hard to remove and show at this size, at all.