On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I only ever use my computer to write plain ASCII text, so this desire for > fast clocks speeds and graphical interfaces, to me, utter and complete > nonsense.
So stick with a Linux or UNIX system running in the terminal. Why complain about it? No one's stopping you from doing so. > Godfrey, you might get into fewer arguments if you phrased things more like: > I only ever photograph still moving things in good light, and since I'm more > interested in artistic effects than image quality, I don't really need high > ISO. Because it's not true. I often do need ISO 800-ISO 1600. Even ISO 3200 has proven useful once in a great while. I've never *needed* ISO 6400-ISO 12800 ... Ever ... although I've used them to see what they did. I am not arguing. We're having a discussion. Participate if you care to, but cut it with the ad hominem bullshit, ok? > By the way, do you still have a link to that post you made after > photographing an indoors event, where you commented that your then current > camera was right on the edge of its performance envelope? I've taken that one down, I think. For that event, I was shooting at ISO 800 as the assignment needed color and that camera, with the raw converter of LR2, didn't pass muster for color work at ISO 1600. With LR3's better raw converter, no problem: I could have used ISO 1600, that would have done the job nicely. The camera was on the edge of its performance envelope more on the basis of its responsiveness and viewfinder than because of its sensitivity. There are legitimate uses for extraordinary sensitivity. There's never any point to being obsessed with it as some sort of Holy Grail. > Frankly, with the K-5, I finally have a camera that meets the minimum > performance that I need in terms of high ISO and low light noise, but I still > find myself missing shots because it isn't clean enough at a high enough ISO. Good for you. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
