On Apr 2, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: > Did you ever bring a camera with to a show only to find out that > there wasn't ANY LIGHTING on the darned stage? > > I just saw a band last weekend where the fastest shutter speed I > could use (with the DS) was 1/15 of a second, at ISO 1600, with an > F2.8 lens cranked wide open.
Yes. And all I had to use at that time was a Panasonic FZ10 ... 4Mpixel, JPEG only, lotsa noise over ISO 200. You do what you can... > RAW would have made more usable images, but 418 images in RAW mode? > Not really practical! Piffle. ;-) That's three-four 1G cards full. Easy. Suck them all into Lightroom and adjust away. > http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2007/NewStandards/index.html I like these a lot. Hard to say from the small web images how they'll print, but they look great to my eye. A little more rendering work on a couple of them and you're set. 18 out of 420 in these conditions is a good job. ;-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net