On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 05:03:56AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > Ooops, last was sent too soon. > > Well, not everyone can be Pentax, can they? Heh. > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > In a message dated 9/6/2013 4:02:35 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > It doesn't do well in "virtual no light" situations, like shooting moving > people in dark dance halls illuminated with 5W bulbs covered in > blue/red/green gels. ]:-)
Heh! I will say that Pentax has certainly changed what I consider to be "low light". If I can shoot hand held with a zoom lens, and not have to take special steps to have the photo be reasonably sharp, then I don't think of it as low light. That means f/2.8, ISO 3200-6400, and 1/30-1/15 second. I'll go on a photowalk in the city, at night, with the 16-50 and no tripod. There are definitely cameras that do better than the K-5 in low light, the D800, the 5DMk3, even the D700 will usually do better than the K-5. And I expect the D3, D4, and 1Dmk4. The Nikon D600 doesn't seem to keep up with the K5, much less the K5-II. I will grant the u4/3 this for low light, that with the evf, they are easier to manually focus in very low light. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
