On Feb 7, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > 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.
I use my DA* 50-135 for concert shoots. F2.8 is plenty fast. I wouldn't want to give away any more DOF. Paul > 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. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
