Hi Ann: Wow! What fun! You'll love the K-5. AWB is pretty darn good. It's my go-to white balance and in Lightroom 4 any necessary tweakings are easy-peasy. High ISO settings are excellent like others have said. But if it is a bit dark, auto-focusing can be a little challenging. The K-5 does have an auto-assistant focus lamp, so in really low light a green light will stream to the subject, which can elicit some funny facial and body responses. You'll want to turn that off though during serious, solemn moments were there should be no distraction. Easy to do in the Menu Options.
I shoot DNG--you have that option with K-5--, so no conversions are needed, and I hardly ever shoot jpegs--always RAW. I don't renumber any of my RAW files either. I just stick the memory card in my Lexar card reader, then import to my processing software, which is Lightroom. Very excited for you. Hope you enjoy what I think is a great camera. Big cheers, Christine On Jul 10, 2013, at 10:09 AM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > I good firend of mine is getting married in August.. he wanted to hire me to > shoot the wedding - but only the portraits and the brief wedding > ceremony - not the reception (so I can eat and socialize) someone else is > doing that. At first i begged off... my *istD isn't up to that and > especially after this recent battery episode, not high enough ISO, etc > > But the I realized I could do it for him inexpensively by wedding photog in > nY standards for sure - the price of a K-5! His check is in the mail and as > soon as I get it I'll be looking for the best price (well, I already am doing > that) Saw an LN at KEH for about $550... I need to get it soon and practice. > Have enough for that and spare batteries... don't need to have a brand new > one. > > IF anyone notices a better deal than that KEH one or has some sage words > about making the K-5 behave well , or some things to watch out for in > switching from the D... > > I'm hoping to shoot without using flash at all. How does the AWB > fare? My habit with the D is to simply load all the raw files onto > my computer from the card reader without renumbering/renaming the raw files - > do any of you do both the PEF and the jpgs? > > any suggestions at all are welcome. > > boy, it is nice to be back! > > Regards, > ann > > -- > 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.
