USA Pentax site link to monochrome K-3iii

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Here's an interesting web page about the method and effects of the Bayer filter on resolution/sharpness.

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I've compared non-pixel-shift vs pixel-shift of the same subject with my K-1 and the improvement in image sharpness is certainly visible. The RAW file size is nearly 4 times (46.7 MB vs. 173MB) the non-pixel-shift version even though the image dimension in pixels is the same at 7360 x 4912 pixels.

In fact the K-1's image sensor will actually have (7360 x 2) x (4912 x 2) light sensitive sensor elements with 4 being averaged together (1 red, 1 blue, 2 green (bayer) filtered sensor elements) to become a single non-pixel-shift pixel.

All a bit boggling!

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Mike

Here's a link to a Japanese Web page, Chrome can translate it:

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I'm guessing it's the same sensor but without the Bayer colour filter so you'll get monochrome images with effectively pixel shift resolution with a single image not 4 consecutive images needed for a colour pixel shift image.

Mike

I have a K-1 mk1 and far as I can tell there is no 'Flash Off' setting in any menu, see attached image of the 'flash' page from the manual.




My K-50 is the same.

Hope this helps.

Mike

And The Pleiades at the very top rhs corner, probably Jupiter down a little bit on the rhs edge, and there's Sirius to the left of Orion!

Plus that lovely blue gradation to the sky.

Great!

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Mike

Nice April Fool gag!

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Mike

Maybe a bit off topic but back in 2007 I experimented with taking telescope eyepiece images with a small point and shoot Panasonic camera I had, my first digital camera. I was amazed at how well this method worked. The telescope was a Meade ETX105 and the camera was a Lumix DMC-LC80, so I'd point the scope at the moon, focus the eyepiece, aim the handheld camera down at the eyepiece and shoot. Here's a couple of examples of the results, first one the whole Moon diameter with terminator and second the same Moon phase with a higher magnification eyepiece giving partial Moon image.







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Mike

Nice, I really rather like the Evening Primrose, a right tangle for the eye to unravel!

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Mike

It sounds like the difficulty is someone not just being left handed but only having one hand at it's the left hand!

So they are looking for a camera that can be used with just one hand and it being the left hand.

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Mike