My guess is that there is too much dynamic range there between the bright wall and the dark paintings. This is complicated also by the two different color temperature light sources, one (daylight?) coming from the left side, the other (incandescent?) coming from the right side, making it difficult to get a good white balance. The auto levels does not help the situation I'm sure, it probably tries to blow up the dark paintings, exacerbating the noise there.
Take the orignal DNG, try a decent white balance aproximation, go into CS2 and crop out one of the paintings before you auto levels, and take a look at the histogram. I'll bet thats its in the lower 1/3 of the full range, and heavily weighted towards the low end. rg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here is my first posted K10D image. It is very q&d with no processing > except for Auto Levels. I was just giving shake reduction a first try. > Boy did I get a nasty surprise: > > http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=21099553 > > Please, help me out here, gang. What should I conclude from this > disaster? Really, I don't want to return the camera. I want shake > reduction. But if the K10D is not useable at ISO 800, then some of the > advantage of shake reduction is, for my shooting, negated. > > Thanks, > > Joe > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
