iso 12800. I find it amazing that you even get a usable image, and that one is pretty good. The portrait is a bit noisy full crop, but looks fine as a normal image.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Paul: Looks good. I'm VERY interested in low light auto focus > performance of the K5. Would very much like to hear your views on this > topic. Cheers, Christine from Chicago > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "P N Stenquist" <[email protected]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 4:17 PM > Subject: K-5 here, high iso samples > > >> My K5 arrived a few hours ago. My first thought was that it was defective >> and wouldn't autofocus. As usual, I'd forgotten to set the diopter to >> "almost blind." Once I realized that I was the only one not focusing, I >> shot a few pics at ISO 6400 and 12800, just for grins. I converted them >> from RAW with the default ACR settings. No additional sharpening. I did >> increase the exposure a bit on the coke sign, since the largely white >> background let it slightly under. Have yet to check exposure for any >> necessary standard comp setting, but it looks pretty close. I also have to >> check autofocus calibration for all my lenses. I hate that job, but >> consider it a necessity with any new camera. Maybe tomorrow. Anyway, ere >> are a few pics. All are with the DA* 16-50. >> >> This is ISO 6400, f4, 1/125th: >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11890890 >> >> 100% drop of same frame: >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11890891 >> >> This frame is ISO 12,800, f4 1/50th. The camera focused in my nearly dark >> basement: >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11890892 >> >> -- >> 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. > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
