Hogan ist ja eigentlich recht zuverlässig in seinen Prognosen, und hier deutet er an dass die Maßnahmen von Pentax wohl eher marktüblich sind:
Dirty secrets. I think this may be the year that many of the little secrets the camera makers have been hiding will start coming out more into the open: alteration of raw files, manipulating gain factors, non-linear and error-prone ADCs, mismatching greens in Bayer filtration, and a host of other little things that some of us have known about for quite some time but which generally don't get much press. Why now? Because at the levels we're now getting to with sensors, people are starting to realize that some of the differences they're seeing at pixel peeping and measurebating levels can't be explained by "new sensor technology."