Originally posted by Richard Spencer Today at work two guys told me that I was so wrong to spend money on Pentax gear. It was explained to me that they are no good at high ISO.
When I arrived home I set my K20d to ISO 6400 and took this shot of the darkest corner of my office. Seems good enough to me although perhaps I have used too much sharpening. what do you think?
I think you witnessed, noob talk
You can tell them JohnBee said that too
I'm reminded of a recent trip we took earlier this summer which involved an underground mine tour. I had the K20D and my wife had a Kx(for video) and the tour consisted of several Canon and Nikon shooters.
Now imagine their faces when the tour guide told them that past the threshold of the doors, that they could not use flash(to hard on the eyes). But I knew this before hand which is why I brought my K20D euiquped with a Katzeye(W/Optibright) and a f/1.4 prime.
So here we are in a pit of darkness the trusty K20D is buffering at 1/140'th ISO3200-6400 under candlelight conditions. It was funny to see the non believers wearing a(sure man sure...) face as I covered the event. But what was even more funny was when we got back to the surface and huddled around to look at the images in the camera
There were some pretty stark faces on that day as people asked to send out photo's to their emails - Yay Pentax