I found the response from Joe Tainter to Godfrey's question quite illuminating. When asked how he managed back in the film days, he seemed to state that basically he rarely if ever used ISO 1600.
----- It's a little more complicated. I tried Fuji 1600 and even Konica 3200 (yuck!), but as time went by I got some expensive fast glass and dropped back to ISO 800 films for indoor shooting. At the end of my film days, much of my indoor shooting was with the FA 31 F1.8 and the FA 24 F2.0. But in the digital world, our wide angle glass is not fast. One exception is the Sigma EX 20 mm F1.8--a lens that I tried but rejected in favor of the better image quality of the FA 20 F2.8 (obtained when I sold the FA 24). So having only slow wide angle glass, high ISO matters to me for indoor shooting. I'm not demanding that ISO 1600 be useable on the K10D. I don't expect it to be, to my eye. But I would very much like for ISO 800 to be good enough. As everyone keeps saying, "We'll see." Joe -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
