On Mar 14, 2011, at 4:18 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > On Mar 13, 2011, at 11:53 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 > > I don't mind a bit of noise for some shots either. But the original poster > was asking about noise levels comparable to shooting in native mode of ISO > 100 or 200. For some of the work I do, such as shooting cars for magazine > publication, even a small amount of noticeable noise is unacceptable. With > the k-7 and K20, that meant never going beyond ISO 200. With the K05, ISO 400 > is completely acceptable and 640 might be as well.
Thanks Paul, that is the exactly the answer that I was looking for to one of my questions. -- 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.
