Nice set, Larry. I think 5183 has some real potential. The couple's
expressions are great. Maybe a bw conversion would work. Cheers, Christine
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From: "Larry Colen" <[email protected]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 2:32 PM
Subject: High ISO noise on the K-5
There was a live band at the weekly blues dance last night. For various
reasons I decided not to shoot with flash, but just go with available
light. The musicians would nod their heads fast enough that I kept having
to boost the ISO to get a fast enough shutter speed, and ended up shooting
at ISO 20,00. The thing that impresses me the most isn't the lack of
noise, but the quality of the noise.
With my K20 the noise was mostly blue, which just looked bad. With the
K-5 even when the noise is really obvious, it looks almost like one of
those paintings that are done with making little dots. Stippling?
Impressionistic?
Mind you, for ISO 20,000, the noise is pretty freaking amazing. The thing
that I notice more than the noise in some shots is the dynamic range, when
there are bright lights in the background, posterization abounds. In some
cases I get this weird halo effect around the people, I suspect that it
might have something to do with the out of focus blur bringing the bright
lights in the background out of clipping and into color.
pictures at:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157626511238830/
or:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157626511238830/
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