I shot a wedding in Yosemite National Park yesterday and my K-5 performed
admirably. There were two problems I noticed that got on my nerves and may
have ruined some pictures.
1. The shot-to-preview time (how long it takes a photo to appear on the
screen after it is taken) is painfully long. Granted, these photos are much
larger than what I was used to with my K10D (which was pretty quick with the
previews), but I really wish Pentax could find some way to speed things up
for us chimpers. It is partly because of this delay that my second complaint
came about.
2. When shooting indoors with my 540FGZ attached, I had to keep a very close
eye on flash exposure in the preview images and constantly dial back the
flash output by at least one stop and up to two stops to prevent massive
highlight blowout. This bit me in the ass during the cake cutting because I
had to be fast, I had to be in close proximity to the table & couple, the
flash had somehow reset itself to normal output and I couldn't wait for the
camera to show me if I was getting the proper exposure.
Now, maybe this can be chalked up to Pentax's flash system being
not-that-great, or maybe it's just my relative inexperience and lack of
foresight, but I wish I had just bumped the ISO way up and shot without
flash.
Live and learn, I guess. At least I can say with some certainty that those
were the only bad shots I took, and I know the bride & groom (who are
friends) probably won't care that much. It was the second marriage for both
of them and the whole thing was pretty casual.
John
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