On 28/12/06, George Sinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The SR and low light performance of the K10d is leading me down the > path to a style change. > > I may have mentioned before that very early on it exposed a problem > with my technique. Somewhere along the line I had developed a bad > habit of quickly lifting my finger from the shutter button after > making an exposure. At higher shutter speeds it didn't make any > difference, but at the slower shutter speeds enabled by the new camera > it was easy to spot. Once discovered that was relatively quick and > easy to correct with a bit of concentration and practice. > > I was never a big fan of flash, but for indoor family snapshots it was > more of a "use flash or don't get a picture" decision. With this > camera I can get a well exposed shot at amazingly slow shutter speeds, > but you can guess what's happening. > > Previously my photos were tack sharp with any subject motion frozen by > the flash. Now I'm getting well exposed photos with quite a bit of > Frank-like subject motion. > > Given the chunk of money I just spent on the camera, my brain is > telling me to enjoy the much more natural looking photos (and I am). > > Don't misunderstand me, I much prefer the lighting without flash. I > even enjoy the subject motion in most of the photos. I'm just > struggling with the fact that the equipment is leading the style > change. > > Anyone else experiencing something similar?
Not really, I spent very little time shooting with flash on my *ist D and I'll continue to do so. This holiday period most of my shooting was done using my old *ist D as it's a far more comfortable camera for me which tends to make the biggest contribution to the consistency and quality of my low light photography. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
