I always wonder if my hatred of flash is due to having used Pentaxes all my life.
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 5:58 PM, John Celio <[email protected]> wrote: > I shot a wedding in Yosemite National Park yesterday and my K-5 performed > admirably. There were two problems I noticed that got on my nerves and may > have ruined some pictures. > > 1. The shot-to-preview time (how long it takes a photo to appear on the > screen after it is taken) is painfully long. Granted, these photos are much > larger than what I was used to with my K10D (which was pretty quick with the > previews), but I really wish Pentax could find some way to speed things up > for us chimpers. It is partly because of this delay that my second complaint > came about. > > 2. When shooting indoors with my 540FGZ attached, I had to keep a very close > eye on flash exposure in the preview images and constantly dial back the > flash output by at least one stop and up to two stops to prevent massive > highlight blowout. This bit me in the ass during the cake cutting because I > had to be fast, I had to be in close proximity to the table & couple, the > flash had somehow reset itself to normal output and I couldn't wait for the > camera to show me if I was getting the proper exposure. > > Now, maybe this can be chalked up to Pentax's flash system being > not-that-great, or maybe it's just my relative inexperience and lack of > foresight, but I wish I had just bumped the ISO way up and shot without > flash. > > Live and learn, I guess. At least I can say with some certainty that those > were the only bad shots I took, and I know the bride & groom (who are > friends) probably won't care that much. It was the second marriage for both > of them and the whole thing was pretty casual. > > John > > -- > http://www.jacelio.com > > -- > 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.
