I still find ISO 12800 an amazing thing. That shot is good now, and will be even better with some (more?) NR. Maybe it's just me, but I don't remember high sensitivity being one of the big possibilities when digital and film were still duking it out.
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11-01-20 9:33 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >> I shot some pics at a pool hall last night. I've shot there before. The >> light is horrible. Rendering requires a lot of highlight reduction and >> shadow pumping. Last year I shot with the K-7. 3200 was really too slow, >> 6400 was very noise. This year I shot with the K-5 at both 6400 and 12800. >> Noise was very good at 6400 and acceptable at 12800. I rendered the pics on >> my laptop, so they're a bit crude at the moment. I'll do some touchups on >> the big screen later, but here's a sample of a 12,800 shot. >> >> It's with the DA*16-50/2.8, f4, 1/80th, 12,800 ISO, 50 mm >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=12369569&size=lg > > Nice, Paul. You're just doing this to twist the knife, aren't you? ;) > > Sigh. Somewhere out there is a K-5 with my name on it. Sadly, there doesn't > appear to be a wad of large denomination notes also with my name on it. > > -bmw > > -- > 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.
