From: Tim Bray
That's an awfully nice picture. No, you don't need a 645D. I don't
need a 645D. Nobody needs a 645D. If anyone on this list gets one
I'm going to send a poisoned Bolivian dwarf to teach them the error
of their ways.
-Tim
Unless, of course, you invite the rest of us over to play with it.
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com>
wrote:
I was driving home from dancing in SF, and seeing the mist and
clouds lit by the moon over some water I was compelled to stop
and take a few pictures. ?At one point when I was bracketing two
cameras (K20 and Kx) two lenses (16-50 & 20/1.8), several isos
and exposures, my first thought was that if I had a K-5 this
would be so much easier because I'd at least know which camera
body to use. ?Then I realized that for this shot I didn't need a
K-5, I needed a 645D. Then I realized what I really needed was
Ralf's nightscape skills.
Where my thoughts ended up, while waiting for the 30 second
exposures, plus the 30 second dark fields, is that what I'd
really like to see is what Ralf could do at night with a 645D,
and that if Pentax were smart, they'd loan Ralf a 645D for a few
weeks, just to see what one could do for night time landscapes.
I need to go to bed rather than going through all of my
n-dimensional bracketing from three different shooting locations,
but after a quick scan, this seems to be one of the more
promising shots:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/5191532097/
K20, ISO 400, 16-50 at 16mm f/2.8 30 second exposure. ?Which
matches my previous experience that the sweet spot at night is a
30 second exposure with the K20 at ISO 400.
For the Bay Area Folks, this is shot from the frontage road, just
north of Black Road (Bear Creek exit off Hwy 17).
If there's interest, I could post my full bracketing of one of
the shots. ?The last one I took ran into problems because the
lens started fogging up.
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