On Sep 13, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote: > 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.
For most of what I do, nothing but politeness prevents me from using a flash. Though if I used one a lot, I'd probably be asked to stop taking pictures. By the same token, I find that the autofocus light is too bright and obnoxious, or at the very least distracting, so as handy as an autofocus assist can be, I often don't use it. With most of my lenses, that isn't a problem, but for some reason in low light even my K-5 has a really tough time focusing the Sigma 20/1.8. Which is annoying because I got it because I needed a fast/wide lens for low light. snip > > >> 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. Yup, I certainly empathized a lot with what you said. > -- 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.
