> On Mar 15, 2021, at 12:28 AM, David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's been a long time since I bought anything photographic but I recently > found a used K5ii at a reasonable price, and it arrived today. This is a big > upgrade from my K10D.
yes, the K-5 was the first Pentax body that I owned which I felt the sensor performance was over the threshold of “good enough that I would only *want* rather than *need* to upgrade. > > I went outside and took a couple of photos just after my daughter went to bed > but the light was getting a bit low. No problem, I can crank up the ISO :) > > This was taken with the FA*200mm f/2.8 at 6400ISO, 1/125 at f/5.0 handheld, > very much reliant on shake reduction. > > http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1096/#peso Very nice photo. > > I'll check whether it's on the latest firmware soon. To their credit, > Ricoh's website made the manual and firmware very easy to find. > > Cheers, > Dave > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
