Larry Colen wrote:
I photograph a lot of dancers in low light, fortunately they seem to move
slower than the ones that you photograph.
I usually shoot performers, rather than dancers. In this case, she was doing
a roll.
And often you are allowed to use flash, it seems.
ISO 10,000, DA* 50-135mm @ 85mm f/3.2, 1/60s:
www.dariobonazza.com/public/K5_23850x.jpg
In this case, ISO 10,000 was on the verge of getting the required
picture.
Of course, a few extra stops would have allowed higher IQ.
We need to get you proving a point more often, I love the above photo.
Ha, how flattering! Glad you like it, thanks Larry.
I can empathize. Photographing at the dojo really requires a shutter
speed over 1/100. Even if I could afford to buy a 24-70ish f/2.8 lens, I
really want more depth of field either because of sloppiness in focus, or
because both people that I'm photographing aren't at the same distance..
With the lighting at the dojo, in order to get 1/100 at f/4 or smaller, I
have to lean on the ISO even harder than I really like with the K-5.
Same here, with performers.
A lot of the photography I do is in a dark room ISO 6400, f/1.8, 1/10 Sec
(or dimmer), with a small amount of it lit, which tends to lead to some
horrific dynamic range issues. I also tend to shoot bands which have funky
stage lighting where I might have quite a few stops of different intensity
between the color channels, so I need the dynamic range to bring the color
into balance too. I can certainly empathize with what you are saying.
The sensitivity and dynamic range of the K-5 makes a lot of what I attempt
to photograph even possible, and the most important, to me, aspect of a
camera's performance. I can get around auto focus issues. I can set my
own exposure. But photographic skill only goes so far in turning far too
few photons into high quality ones and zeros.
Again, very similar situation here. For the kind of photography I shoot, the
K-5 was the camera I was hoping for and the biggest leap since the *istD.
Dario
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