A friend threw a concert/party for her 40th birthday last night. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=183654&id=653299672&l=81d056cc31
She had asked a friend to take pictures but was happy to have me play with my camera also. When we were setting up before the show I was amused to note that Dave, the other photographer, was shooting with a K10D.
It'll be interesting to see how his shots turn out. He seemed to be shooting from the back of the room with a sigma 30/1.4 and I was up at the front, mostly with the 50/1.4, 77 and my m135/2.5, though I did end up putting the 31 on later in the evening. I suspect that the k-x with a 50-135 would be a pretty good combination for band photography in small spaces. Maybe, in about 5 years sensors will be fast enough that I won't feel I need the extra speed of primes. Then again, maybe in about 5 years they'll be able to design a sharp 50-135 that's f/2.
I am beginning to seriously loathe colored gels. Metering was a stone cold bitch. If I metered for the shot in general I'd blow out at least the red channel. Automatic metering was a fair approximation of useless. I was lamenting that gel lights are always red and blue (or magenta), which combined hit about the same number of pixels as green would. But I suspect that people do not look very good under green light.
I'm tempted to try a green filter in one of these situations, so I can use a bit more exposure and not blow out the red and blue channels so badly. Here is a case where I'd love to have a camera without the Bayer filter. It'd probably be a stop faster, and color balance would no longer be a problem.
It seems that every time I use my FA77 I am reminded of how much I love that lens. I swear, that just looking through the viewfinder with that lens on the camera can make me smile.
I was almost wishing that I had done a "Fry's rental" of the open box K-x that I had been playing with the night before. That's when you buy something at Fry's, use it for a couple of days, and then take advantage of their great return policy. Since they already had an open box K-x I wouldn't have felt as guilty as I would doing that with an unused K-x, but it's not something I'd really want to do unless I really needed to. Besides, there's always the danger that I wouldn't want to return the camera after a few days.
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