The quality of the noise at very high ISOs on the K5 is very film like---to
my eye anyway. I actually want to do some work at high ISOs converting to
black and white and keeping the noise/grain. Just want to see what it might
yield. Cheers, Christine
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From: "Steven Desjardins" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: High ISO noise on the K-5
Looking again, they have a certain "feel" to them just like old B&W's
did. At least for now, there is a look to high iso color that is very
emotive.
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Christine Aguila
<[email protected]> wrote:
Nice set, Larry. I think 5183 has some real potential. The couple's
expressions are great. Maybe a bw conversion would work. Cheers, Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Colen" <[email protected]>
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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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