Eric, a few questions: - what was your shutter speed? - were you shooting handheld? - what aperture? Wide open? - what Lightroom NR settings did you use?
Aside from the other considerations, I have found that backing way off on the NR is very helpful. You just _have_ to accept some noise, and the defaults on most NR packages are too aggressive. The K-5 and K-3 actually produce fairly film-like noise so leave the Lightroom NR Luminance slider low and crank on the Color slider to get rid of the colour artifacts. That will leave you with more apparent sharpness. I sometimes intentionally shoot at f2.8 and 50mm on the otherwise ultra-sharp DA* 16-50/2.8 in order to get a flattering portrait diffuse softness. If I also crank up the ISO I can forgo retouching altogether. ;-) On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > Recently I took a bunch of photos in low-light with my K5 set to ISO 12800. > The lens was an A 28/2.8, which I get good results with with good light. > After doing noise reduction on them the images looked pretty smudgy. Almost, > but not quite, like water color images. > > I’m blaming the result on poor focusing on my part, which I found difficult > in low light. I’ve had my eye on a 35mm DA L F2.4 AL for a while. Would I > have gotten better results with it? > > Thanks, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.net > > "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, > men would die from a great loneliness of spirit." > > - 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
