Pentax Monochrome

Freakscene said:
With the Pentax you’ll never see the pattern noise unless you go crazy with the manipulations. With a Leica Monochrom you run into them much more quickly, which was why I generally accept the tonality and let my photos have darker shadows and lower mud tones than I’d like.

Marty
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Do you have an example of an edited file with this pattern? I'm not sure I've run into it at all.
 
agentlossing said:
Do you have an example of an edited file with this pattern? I'm not sure I've run into it at all.
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From ISO 204800 you can easily see it in the background. I use this example because it’s from Ricoh. I emphasize again that the pattern noise is much less obvious than in the Leica Monochroms.
 
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Freakscene said:

From ISO 204800 you can easily see it in the background. I use this example because it’s from Ricoh. I emphasize again that the pattern noise is much less obvious than in the Leica Monochroms.
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Is it visible at 100%? I wonder how possible it is that this might just be an artifact of downsizing. Digital files get really weird with lots of noise speckles, especially ones as high-contrast as those from monochrome sensors.
 
agentlossing said:
Is it visible at 100%? I wonder how possible it is that this might just be an artifact of downsizing. Digital files get really weird with lots of noise speckles, especially ones as high-contrast as those from monochrome sensors.
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Yes, it’s not resizing or lens corrections. It is most apparent in uncorrected raw files at 100%. I think it’s just what happens when signals from sensors get interpreted.
 
Zuiko-logist said:
Care to elaborate on the differences?
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The only difference is the mount - I no longer have any Canon EF mount bodies, but the lens is available in Nikon F and Pentax K mounts. The lens is one of those Zeiss lenses that, when you get it right, has real pop and punchy sublime colour. The out of focus is smooth and not distracting - just gets out of the way leaving focus on the subject.
 
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