focus manually? ----------------- J.C.O'Connell [email protected] -----------------
-----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Larry Colen Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:59 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: The K-5 continues to surprise me >From my experience shooting in very low light, I don't tend to like to push the ISO on the K-5 past 12,800. Sometimes I'll go as high as 16,000 when I don't have any choice. Last night I was photographing a benefit concert for a friend whose house had burned down, and when I wasn't using a flash, I mostly had it set in TAv mode. I noticed this shot was a little bit noisy, then noticed that the ISO was at 25,600: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/8366084507/ (1/100 f/4.5 25,600 77mm) Meanwhile, my girlfriend selected this one as one of her favorites. It had initially been processed by Lightroom auto-tone: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/8366869610/ It looked a bit rough, then I realized that it was one where the flash hadn't gone off. 1/100 f/8 ISO 320, something like eight or nine stops under exposed. On the not so happy side, I don't know how many of my shots were lost due to the camera focusing on the microphone. Even when I'm using a focus point on the far side of the diagonal from the mic. I've heard of issues with weird focusing under tungsten light. I wonder if the strong red gels were causing the camera to front focus, and just end up getting the mic. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong, hitting the focus lock too early. It's something that I do really need to figure out. -- 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. -- 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.
