On 19 May 2013 09:40, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Man. > > I just shot my first big concert with the K5 and it was a blast. > > While the auto-focus in a rock-concert environment (especially with tons of > backlighting) is still iffy... there were no problems with the exposure. And > if I muffed the exposure (at least on the dark side of things) all I had to > do was grab the "exposure" slider in Lightroom and - problem solved. No > bright colored sparkles of noise, just a nice smooth "film grain" look. > > It's really great to be able to pull actual details out of the shadows! > > Example shot from last night: > > http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2013/rebel_rebel_x/content/K5__2005_large.html > > (they are doing a cover of the horrible mess that is the Jagger/Bowie version > of "Dancing In The Streets") > > It's difficult to imagine what will be available in 3 years (if Pentax is > still in business)!
Very nice Charles, but you were spoiled for light there! :) At concerts I'm often shooting 200mm @ 1/20 , f2.8 ISO4000 just to get something usable! Focus is the issue for me, the noise profile, exposure latitude and sensitivity are all excellent. Cheers, -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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.
