After sending the email below, I actually took a look at the shot I took. Despite my condescending attitude, I didn't hold a lot of hope for tonight's photos. I hadn't even pulled out the monopod and most were hand held at 1/20-1/10 second (the last few were at 1/10). I don't know if any are good enough photographically to post to my flickr account, but a bunch were good enough for snapshots for the dancers so I posted them to facebook: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150553321359673.431335.653299672&type=1&l=e614f6f7bd
Every so often I have one of those "welcome to the 21st century" moments. Granted the lens is moderately expensive, but even so, these photos were taken hand held, with an entry level two model cycles out of date body at ISO 6400 at shutter speeds that you just shouldn't be able to hand hold at. On Dec 20, 2011, at 2:22 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > I recently realized that I haven't been photographing dancers much lately. So > at one point, when I was at a dance tonight, I pulled out the stormtrooper > and FA31 to take some photos. While I was doing so, I noticed some flashes > going off on the other side of the room. A few minutes later I found myself > standing next to someone with what was looked like a full frame Canon with a > speedlight complete with fong dong on a flash bracket. It was not very nice > of me to comment, "Ah, with a Canon you'd need a flash in this light". He > said, "I have a 2.8 if I wanted to get serious", I just held up the > stormtrooper and said "1.8, Image Stabilized". > > In some ways, I feel kind of sorry about being such an asshole. > > I was pushing the K-x pretty hard in most of the room at ISO 6400, 1/20 & > f/1.8. I suppose the new 1D could have gotten shots with an f/2.8 lens, but > I don't think any other Canon could have. > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
