Excellent shot Paul. I've also got a ISO3200 shot that I'd consider to be one of my best:
http://flickr.com/photos/mawz/58353764/in/set-72157594316203966/ *istD with the 18-55 DA. -Adam Paul Stenquist wrote: > A shot that I consider one of the best of my career was at 3200. But > I don't get all bent out of shape about noise or grain. Apparently, > some critics agree. > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/index-flash.jsp? > #section=ARTIST&subSection=101957&subSubSection=128514&language=EN > Paul > On Oct 21, 2007, at 9:48 PM, Tom C wrote: > >> With the caveat regarding who knows about Pentax?... >> >> I'd take a full frame sensor that did very well between 200 - 400 >> ISO any >> day (ISO 800) w/b nice, over any sensor that had marginal high ISO >> performance at 1600 and above. I find any photo I take at 1600 or >> higher >> with the *ist D to be, while documentary, not worth a heck of alot >> otherwise. I am loathe to set ISO over 800. >> >> Thinking back to film, I rarely shot anything over 400, and many >> times I was >> pushing 100 two stops to get 400. When I needed more light gathering >> ability the camera was on a tripod and I used longer shutter speeds. >> >> I wouldn't mind that at all because I find the high ISO performance of >> DSLR's to be no more desirable than the performance of high ISO films. >> >> Who *seriously* shoots at ISO1600+ and gets results they would rave >> about? >> For my kind of photgraphy it doesn't work near as well as a lower >> ISO and a >> tripod. >> >> Tom C. >> >> >> >>> From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: Next move from Pentax: hints about sensor for next >>> camera(s) >>> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:47:22 -0400 (EDT) >>> >>> Adam Maas wrote: >>> >>>> Not only an old sensor, but one with extremely poor high ISO >>> performance >>>> (it's the Sensor Kodak used in the DCS14n, DCS/n and DCS/c). >>> Well they may have improved it since then: The data sheet shows it's >>> been revised, January 2007 -- they've nearly doubled the frame rate >>> from 1.7 fps to 3 fps, for example. >>> >>> Not that it has any bearing on Pentax, AFAIK. >>> >>> BTW: >>> http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp? >>> forum=1036&message=25298198 >>> ;-) >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > -- 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.
