I took these this morning with the Pentax K100 at 1600 iso. The lens was the manual focus SMC Pentax-A 28mm lens.
1600 iso is very good with the Pentax and I don’t hesitate in using it if required. Even 3200 is good and excellent results can be obtained by doing a black and white conversion in RAW and reducing ‘Colour Noise’ to smooth out the shadow areas a little.
The same applies to the K10 but 1600 iso is its limit. In praise of the K10 I do find 1100 iso to be exceptionally clean and would not hesitate to use it.
1600 iso is very good with the Pentax and I don’t hesitate in using it if required. Even 3200 is good and excellent results can be obtained by doing a black and white conversion in RAW and reducing ‘Colour Noise’ to smooth out the shadow areas a little.
The same applies to the K10 but 1600 iso is its limit. In praise of the K10 I do find 1100 iso to be exceptionally clean and would not hesitate to use it.
The 10 by 7 inch print of this BW version shows no noise and is in fact far better than the same size print from iso 400 35mm film.
A note about these pictures.Most amateur photographers appear to ‘Sneak’ around with their camera. They don’t approach people and many even avoid them by concentrating on static landscape or architectural pictures.
Photography is very much a social interaction pursuit, even if you like to do candids it is always polite and often wise to speak to your subjects.
A link to my good friend Ian’s Blog
http://www.ianskyphotosite.blogspot.com/
Ian shoots with a Canon 5D, 20D, Ricoh GRD and GX100. I note he has been leaving me some nice comments
As we are both Ex photo journalists we do seem to see eye to eye.
1 comments:
Love them. You are so right about the shy photographer which is why we have to suffer so many dead lifeless landscape photos.
Photography should be social interactive, throughout its history the best photos have been those that portray society. Weston is seen by some as a landscape photographer which is wishfull thinking. He gained his reputation and fame as a photogrpher of the nude, well ahead of his time.
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