On Jun 6, 2012, at 6:22 AM, Rick Womer wrote: > I've had my K-5 for 2 weeks, and just got back from a long weekend at > Colonial Williamsburg. > > I'm stunned with the image quality: Wonderful tonal gradations and incredible > low-light sensitivity and shadow detail.
Congratulations. > > Everyone who said it's a huge improvement over the K-7: you were right. It's funny. No matter how many times you hear about how quiet it is, the first time you shoot one it's practically guaranteed to smack your gob. I've shot over 50,000 frames on mine, and it's still surprising me by how much harder I can push it and still get completely usable results. Yes, some of my photos from last weekend look a bit rough, but they were shot at ISO 16,000 and 1/10 second and are sharper, and cleaner, than what I was getting with the K100 at ISO 1,600 and 1/20 Sec. Sometimes I think that I need to completely relearn how to expose and process photos with the K-5. It has so much dynamic range, I'm almost better exposing to preserve highlights that one would expect to be completely out of range, and then pull usable details out of what at first looks like completely black shadow. > > Many PESOs to follow (from Williamsburg and the English Midlands) when I have > time to start sorting. I'm looking forward to them. > -- 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.
