Re: Surprise.. Pentax?
Maybe I am just too dense, but I don't see the "huge" significance of this.
It can "choose" a much wider color rnage, which internally, it can distinguish more color gradations or shades of each color. More "steps" I think some used as the term. I can see that you would like that. I can see that if the sensor can give you reds or blues or greens that you just can't see or get from all the other DSLRs, that would be a great thing.
But, if the sensor still sends the same number of bits to the file, what happened to all the other bits in between the extremes? Other DSLRs, lets say have a range of colors from 1 to 1,000, and send them all the the file (just say they do). This one can read a range of 1 to 10,000 (lets say). It is gonna send 1,000 of them to the file. Who got left out? Sounds like JPG compression almost to me. Yeah the "steps" are more accurate, but is it really "accurate"?
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