So... yesterday, my daughter competed in her first gymnastics meet. And (please pardon the bragging..), she did very well. Well enough, that I think there just might be many more meets in our future. Which is all well & good, but photographically speaking, it's like shooting soccer in a cave.. and the cave-dwellers forbid flash.
With my k-7 & 50-135, the results were reasonable, for what they are, shot at 3200iso, f2.8, 1/125 sec. (I put some snaps up here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23028...@n04/sets/72157625788531640/with/5341649434/) But, I could do with less noise. And even higher iso (or wider apertures) could get me faster shutter speed, which would also improve matters. So, I'm trying to decide where to focus my longing... 1) a k-5? (for all the obvious reasons) 2) faster lens? (most shots are within the 50-85mm range) 3) noise reduction software? (I only have what's available in ACR/cs4... open to suggestions, thoughts on this) What do you think? FWIW, I've considered asking her to switch sports. But it wouldn't help much -- she also plays hockey... :) Thanks, all, -c -- 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.
