Hi Christine: Ok, so here's what I think: You're clearly a serious
photographer and a mother with children busy with indoor & outdoor
activities--maybe more indoor than outdoor (gymnastics, hockey etc--I don't
know for sure). I say go for a K5 because of ISO capabilities for your
indoor shooting of family actives. The DA* 50-135mm with f2.8 across all
focal lengths (a lens I own as well), in my view, is your very best friend
for many of your children's activates--so, combining it with a K5, should
put you in photographic hog heaven. As your kids travel to various activity
venues, your accessibility to photograph will change, and a K5 with the DA*
50-135mm should be a terrific kit allowing you to easily adapt to any indoor
shooting situation.
I'd also recommend you get Lightroom. Even the 2.7 version, which I have,
can do a nice job on noise reduction, but version 3 is out and the noise
reduction capabilities in this version are fantastic.
Your "snaps" are fun, though I don't know which one is your daughter. My
favorite is this one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23028...@n04/5341649434/in/set-72157625788531640/
Hope that helps. Cheers, Christine from Chicago
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christine Nielsen" <[email protected]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 8:46 AM
Subject: My Little Gymnast, OR: Why I Might "Need" a K-5, OR: Better
NoiseReduction Software
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
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