At 07:13 PM 5/6/2018, Larry Colen wrote: >Nope, that was the internal mic. ... the camera was only a few inches from >the baby birds.
That explains it. I'm not familiar with the Sigma 20, and it will be some time before I can afford to invest in a prime lens. The 18-270 will have to do for now. It will be interesting to see how good the mike is in the K-70. Unfortunately I don't own a mike calibrator to test it. >However, I wouldn't think that with headstones, the light balance would be so >far off that you couldn't get the same effect just by tweaking the various >channels in the raw files. Especially since Lightroom allows you to use >separate curves for each channel. With up to 14 stops of dynamic range in >your raw file, there's a lot of room there for adjustment. I will try that in a couple of my image editors, but I don't expect to get Lightroom any time soon. There are still some key pieces of hardware that I need to upgrade. I am so used to using colored filters that I will likely stick with them, especially now that I can see the black and white image in live view and don't have to bracket filtered shots. The filter flip book that I am building should help me to quickly decide which filter will work best. I also suspect that getting the effects that I am used to by tweaking the channels could take quite a while to master as some of the filter transmittance curves are not simple. Dale H. Cook, 50+ years as an SLR photographer, Pentax K-70 w/ Pentax-DA 18-270mm lens, using colored filters for B&W gravestone photography -- 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.
