On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 02:18:04PM -0400, Miserere wrote: > 2009/8/13 Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com>: > > > > I'm finding that manual focus is working a lot better for me than > > autofocus in low light dance photography. > > Larry, how do you manage to get steady photos while you dance?
I'm not shooting while I'm dancing. Well, not usually. I brace myself, and prefer to use a monopod. > > The focus assist really IS like a real assistant; i.e., you can > sometimes let it do your work for you, but if you want it done right, > you have to do it yourself. I wish I could set things up so that it's in manual focus, but I can set a button to autofocus, and then release the motor so I can fine tune the focus by hand. I suppose I can get used to using the focus mode switch by the lens. Even with the katzeye, it's tough in low light manually. I need to train myself that when the camera says it has focus lock, I have to make sure that it is locking on the right thing. > > As for the pics, I can't tell much because the sizes are quite small > on your Flickr page, but I would be happy to be getting that quality That set was processed for facebook, so the smaller size. I just posted those on flickr so Joe could see the EXIF data. > at ISO3200. This one, for example: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/3818423996/in/set-72157622030236980/ > > looks very clean. Thanks. > > High ISO looks crap when you pixel peep, there is no way around that, But sometimes it looks a lot worse than others. > but photographs are either viewed small on the internet or are printed > on 8x12 at the largest (in general). In both cases your high ISO shots > look good. Although I haven't seen an 8x12 print of the above photo, > I'd be willing to bet it *will* look good. > > Cheers, > > > --M. > > > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > http://www.EnticingTheLight.com > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
