On Mar 13, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Tim Bray wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I frequently use ISO 400 in good light with the K-5, just to get the shutter >> speed. The noise is negligible. That wasn't true of the K20. > > Clearly Paul and I see pictures differently :) On the K20 I regularly > shoot at 1600 and even print some of those. The noise issues have > gotten better with Lr3's vastly better antinoise, but I think the big > factor is that the noise actually just doesn't bother me much. -Tim
For me it depends on whether the noise is worse than the blurriness from motion, or low depth of field. Shooting dancers in a dark room, I regularly pushed the ISO to redline. Shooting landscapes in daylight, it was ISO100 all the way. For night time landscapes with stars, optimal balance between star motion and sensor noise seemed to be at ISO 400, at 30 seconds. Photographing musicians, I had to learn to push the ISO harder than I thought I should. The noise could be treated as "character" rather than having faces blurred to unrecognizability. With the metering on the K-5 being so much better than the K20, I'm finding that TAv mode works a treat, though depending on color balance, I may have to twiddle exposure compensation. -- 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.
