On Sunday, October 09, 2011 8:17 PM, "Mark C" <[email protected]> wrote: > I finally got a chance to give the K5 a workout this weekend. It is a > great camera and a significant upgrade from the K7. However, I > appreciate that it shares ergonomics and batteries with the K7 - makes > keeping the K7 as a backup that much easier. > > Yesterday I spent some time with autumn meadowhawk dragonflies and this > afternoon I shot some bees in my yard. ISO 800 on the k5 is easily > comparable to ISO 400 oin the K7, and the higher ISO was usefull when > shooting the bees, which never sit still. I also note that the improved > exposure latitude results in needing to use less fill flash - which is > also helpful. > > A few shots can be found here: > > http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/ > > or archived here: > > http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/autumn-dragons-autumn-bees >
Some really nice work there - especially the one of the bee with the collected pollen on its leg. I don't know how you manage those dragonfly shots. The few I see around here are never still long enough for me to capture anything but a blur. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html -- 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.
