I experienced flash blow out with my 360 today at our family
gathering--surprised the begeezees out of me to say the least--thought
either flash or camera was broken. I've never had that happen with previous
Pentax cameras. I dialed in all my usual settings I use at my parent's
house only to get flash blow out with the K-5. I had to dial down much more
than usual. I plan to test the k-5 with the flash this week. Cheers,
Christine
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From: "John Celio" <n...@neovenator.com>
To: <PDML@pdml.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 4:58 PM
Subject: K-5 at a wedding: My two complaints
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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