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fakuryu
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May 17, 2017
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Somewhat unbelievable that no one is taking advantage of this! The KP is the best APSC DSLR in the market right now in terms of lowlight capability and image quality, plus that DA25 f2.8 Macro Limited is so sharp and has character.
mass_sean
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May 18, 2017
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fakuryuIt makes for a good starter camera too. I like how one of the User Modes is Manual Lens which eliminates some of the menu drilling you'd have to do when attaching a manual lens. And, as I mentioned in a previous post, The additional bracketing modes can also be useful in beginner/intermediate stage.
Party_Hard
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Feb 7, 2019
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fakuryu>The KP is the best APSC DSLR in the market right now in terms of lowlight capability
This is simply not true. High ISO number does not cause great image quality.
fakuryu
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Feb 13, 2019
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Party_HardIts not about the high ISO, the KP's output is simply cleaner at any equivalent ISO (APSC) because it has a built in Image Acceleration unit. Even at a modest ISO1600 shows better detail than its peers and is already almost or is also matching a FF camera.
https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/image-comparison?attr18=daylight&attr13_0=pentax_kp&attr13_1=sony_a6300&attr13_2=sony_a7ii&attr13_3=fujifilm_xt3&attr15_0=raw&attr15_1=raw&attr15_2=raw&attr15_3=raw&attr16_0=1600&attr16_1=1600&attr16_2=1600&attr16_3=1600&attr171_1=1&normalization=full&widget=1&x=-0.8970131200246877&y=0.18439830804576898
Party_Hard
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Feb 25, 2019
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fakuryu"built in Image Acceleration uni" is a name of way of implementing the technology (digital noise reduction) known for decades. Typically it is done on the main processor and was already used since K10D and by other OEMs as well but Pentax decided to make it a different chip.
There are three problems with this chip:
- it does nothing what can't be done with raw file developer. Specifically, it seems to apply mostly colour noise reduction as Fujifilm does for years already and Fujifilm does it even more aggressively.
- it cannot be disabled and it's effect cannot be (easily) reversed
- it reduces image detail (in this case: only slightly) as ANY existing random noise reduction algorithm
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