I finally had a chance to take a crack at low/poor-light photography with my K10D.
I took with me a mixture of lenses - Tamron 28-75, A28/f2.8, F50/1.7, and an old Takumar 135/2.5 (much reviled but very small and handy). What surprised me the most was how much effort it took to get sharp images with the Tamron in the low light. Which made no sense, as it had pretty much the same maximum aperture as the other lenses. I started with the Tamron, quickly popped it into the bag, and only tried it a bit towards the end to see if I'd just had starting-out problems. The highest number of good shots seems, though, to be from the 50 and the 135. I LOVE the SR - almost every blurred shot (and there were a LOT) was from either mis-focusing or a subject that moved. I shot over 1100 images and just about 60 made the cut. Also: This is the first web gallery I've created with Lightroom - I'm still getting the hang of tweaking the output to a format I like, but this is a start. With all that said, here's my favorite local covers band: "Hookers and Blow" http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2008/hookers_bunkers/ index.html -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
