On Oct 31, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Joseph Tainter wrote: >> 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.
I never did see a response to that query. The joys of the mail server, I presume. > 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. I've done plenty of what I consider to be low light work and never used much more than ASA 800-1000 in film, and that only in very very unusual circumstances. With the *ist DS, as I said in another message, I've got maybe forty exposures out of thousands at ISO 3200, and not a lot at ISO 1600 either. Most of the time, when the light is poor, I use a tripod. ISO 800 and an f/2.8 lens seems to work just fine for me with indoor shooting in general. ISO 400 is also mostly workable too. Different strokes. I'm sure the K10D will be fine anyway. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
