Originally posted by Christine Tham This is not to rain on your parade, and I'm hoping to get a K-5 next year, but that sort of picture should be quite possible on the K10d. I've taken similar photos of my nephew.
Rather than shooting ISO3200 1/60s you could go ISO800 1/15 or ISO400 1/8 with SR and get very good results.
Here's my nephew on his 2nd birthday:
OK while we are at it, a proper working flash system is near un-beatable. Its sad that my Kodak P880 (a dSLR want to be) has an optional external flash like are Pentax AF360 that worked flawless. You could not even tell you used flash many times! I am serious. I will post some examples.
All of them are with bounce flash, but I am time limited as I have to go to work (
). Even direct its nothing like how are Pentax flash systems behave. Look up the P880 and P20 flash. Its not a small weak flash. I can fully understand those who say the Nikons flash system has value. I avoid flash when with my prosumer Kodak I used it when needed and gladly as it unlike the Pentax produced good results without trying, no thought to it. For some reason at least with the K20D, it can't nail it unless you fiddle with the controls.
The first pic is of a very special person/friend of the family. This is his birthday. And I pic I really like. He can't talk, but his expression says all there needs to be said.
The last is of a Train! Now not having flash is great, but just saying flash can be good to. But it has to work right. And you have to learn how to use it. In case of the Pentax flash system, it ain't easy.
These pics have not been touched out of Kodak P880 jpegs. It also had a superior WB and JPEG system (even though I do RAW, and it could to).