On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 05:21:40PM -0400, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Oct 14, 2013, at 1:47 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Wrote a little something on this for the DPR mFT forum: > > > > http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/52327502 > > That's impressive. > > On a somewhat related note, I'm getting pretty frustrated with the low-light > capabilities of my *istDS. Last Saturday I went on a hike along the Chattooga > River in North Georgia. It was a bright, sunny day, but in the forest even > ISO 3200 didn't produce good exposures. Along the river itself, there were > sharp contrasts of the light on the river and the deep shadow of the opposite > shore. > > There I was able to get decent exposures, though with shape contrasts, at ISO > 1600. But the images were very noisy, most evident in shadowed areas. > Attempting noise reduction in LR under detail/noise reduction/luminance > resulted in significant loss of detail. Where noise had previously been > evident it looked like the image had been panted as a water color. > > I''ve pretty much decide to get myself a K-5. The only issue is whether it > will be new or used. My question is, will I be able to get cleaner sharper > images in situations like this? What about better balanced exposure in > conditions of high contrast, again like this one?
I have not used an ist, but compared to a K100, a K-x, K-r and a K20 a K-5 will get cleaner, sharper pictures in any condition. And, the shutter is very, very quiet. -- 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.
