Fun portrait: Nice detail, great colour, focus on front eye, technically very good but that cut off lip is a bother.
Cheers, frank On October 31, 2015 3:22:31 PM EDT, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >Last Tuesday I photographed a corporate charity poker game that they >put >on every year during Oracle World. Each year they hire Anita Cocktail >as entertainment at the event: >https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/22619174886/in/album-72157660578347352/ > >I had been worried about the high ISO performance of the K-3 relative >to >the K-5, but it worked out just fine. There were a couple of times >that >the autofocus didn't work as quickly as I had hoped it would, and I >missed shots because it couldn't lock focus in time, in the relatively >low light. Metering seems to have improved over previous cameras, and >in >many ways I much prefer the UI over that of the K-5. > >The Raw/fx button is still broken in that if you accidentally bump it, >it will change your operating mode, but you have to go through the >menus >to change it back. Unfortunately, they also took off the astrotracer >functionality of that button, which is how I preferred to have it set. > >It is nice that the body is shaped much the same as the K-5, so it >feels >familiar in my hands, though that did mean I occasionally had to look >at >it to remember which camera I was shooting with. > >I sincerely hope that when they release the 24x36 sensor camera this >spring they also release a lower priced APS version of it, so that I >could have two different bodies, with different sized sensors (and >prices) and still easily shift between them. But, they probably will >feel that more money can be made by making people buy multiple full >frame cameras rather than giving them an easy learning curve on the >upgrade path from APS to FF. -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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.
