Thank you, Boris... She's quite pleased with herself, hasn't stopped grinning yet.
Another vote of confidence for the Adobe NR...! I'm thinking a software upgrade is in order for me... at the very least. ;) On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Christine. > > I looked at the pictures. First of all, please congratulate your daughter, > if I understand correctly, she won the first place. Wonderful achievement as > it surely would boost her self-confidence in the future in every area, not > just gymnastics. > > Now to the photography part. I think you did well with K-7. Since you did > not provide full size files, only 1024 pixels on the long edge, it is hard > to see how printable they are, but I think that A4's can be printed quite > easily. >> 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? > > 1. K-5 will probably help you. I cannot say for sure, but the common opinion > has it that it improves greatly over K-7 in many aspects of IQ - dynamic > range, noise, color fidelity. But it is expensive. > > 2. I don't think that there are too many faster lenses to suggest to you. In > fact, f/2.8 is where all zooms max out their aperture. At least those in > Pentax K mount. I don't believe that DA 70/2.4 limited will offer serious > gain in speed. The next candidate is FA 77/1.8 limited and the final one is > FA* 85/1.4. FA 77 costs less than USD 1000, while FA* 85 costs more than > this figure. I've FA 77 and it is mighty fine lens. There is a gotcha with > FA 77. It has rather long focus throw and therefore it does not focus all > too fast. I cannot say about gymnastics as I never shot such a thing, but it > may prove problematic. In principle you could resolve this by switching your > camera to rapid fire mode (or even slow fire mode - 3fps) and simply > shooting in bursts. > > 3. I've LR 3.3 and before that I bought Topaz DeNoise for USD 80. Prior to > that I did not believe in NR software and now I do. You can download fully > operational 30 day trial from their web site and this is what I did. It does > very convincing job. > >> >> FWIW, I've considered asking her to switch sports. But it wouldn't >> help much -- she also plays hockey... :) > > I thought hockey and gymnastics had rather opposite requirements on one's > body... > > Boris > > -- > 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.
