I’ve now had a couple experiences with my new K-5. The first was just experimenting in a walk in my neighborhood. The second was at a regional cross country championship meet which the team from the high school in the community in which I used to work was favored to win and did.
>From the first I could see that I will eventually get to the place where I can >take much better photos with this camera. The second was pretty discouraging, >though, though again strictly regarding my technique, not the camera. Two >problems: [1] I was focusing manually. I tried to set focus up ahead of time at each of the two locations from which I was shooting to increase my chances for getting at least a few sharp shots, but I didn’t get one. [2] It was early morning with lots of shade. The auto ISO setting ranged between 2200 and 3200---I didn’t realize until I turned the camera on at this shoot that it had an auto ISO feature—so there was a lot of noise. I had more success reducing it in Lightroom than I had had previously with images created with the *ist DS, but combined with the lack of focus the result was disappointing. The takeaway goes without saying: Much, much more experience. Learning the camera. Learning photography. Developing a technique. Not a lot of time left for that, but I’ll give it as much as I can. Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." - Chief Seattle -- 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.
