On May 18, 2013, at 18:50 , Rob Studdert <distudio.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 May 2013 09:40, Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com> wrote: >> Man. >> >> I just shot my first big concert with the K5 and it was a blast. >> >> While the auto-focus in a rock-concert environment (especially with tons of >> backlighting) is still iffy... there were no problems with the exposure. >> And if I muffed the exposure (at least on the dark side of things) all I had >> to do was grab the "exposure" slider in Lightroom and - problem solved. No >> bright colored sparkles of noise, just a nice smooth "film grain" look. >> >> It's really great to be able to pull actual details out of the shadows! >> >> Example shot from last night: >> >> http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2013/rebel_rebel_x/content/K5__2005_large.html >> >> (they are doing a cover of the horrible mess that is the Jagger/Bowie >> version of "Dancing In The Streets") >> >> It's difficult to imagine what will be available in 3 years (if Pentax is >> still in business)! > > Very nice Charles, but you were spoiled for light there! :) > True, I just noticed it was at a very-relaxed ISO1600. BUT - I also see I pushed it +2.29 stops in LR (with shadows at +24 as well)! ISO summary and image count from that gallery: 400 - 3 800 - 10 1600 - 8 3200 - 17 6400 - 19 > At concerts I'm often shooting 200mm @ 1/20 , f2.8 ISO4000 just to get > something usable! Focus is the issue for me, the noise profile, > exposure latitude and sensitivity are all excellent. > Agreed. Simply lovely to have that amount of latitude in the post-process! -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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.
