Larry Colen wrote:
Also, Nick was concerned about the low light performance of the
K100. This set was shot at between ISO 200 and 400. It wasn't horribly
dark, but it was by no means ideal lighting for action shots.
The biggest problem was that the two spots on the band both had yellow
gels, making color balance a bit of a challenge.
Most of these were shot with the FA 50/1.4, some may have been shot
with the FA77. I certainly missed the high iso performance, the larger
buffer, and the second dial for iso of the K20. As an aside, if I had
waited a couple more weeks, Amazon now has the K20 for $670.
I think that the two best shots were both of Irv on the sax:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/3409027558/in/set-72157616200776255/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/3408211857/in/set-72157616200776255/
The whole set is at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157616200776255/
Those are really nice, Larry!
Your lighting must have been actually pretty good. Take a look at these
ones taken with a K100Ds at ISO 1600, all DA* 50-135 ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bruce_m_walker/sets/72157616071481563/
The last 13 shots were taken last Thursday.
I've been finding that I can even take acceptable shots at ISO 3200 as
long as the most important elements are well exposed. Then I just use
ACR's Blacks or curves to fade away the darker portions of the image so
the noise isn't very noticeable.
-bmw
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