- K20, first taken with Sigma 70-300 Apo at 170mm, f4.5, 1/180 sec, iso 3200, tripod, onboard difused fill flash, lens was little soft at that aperture and FL,
the second was taken with Tamron 28-75 at 28mm, f2.8 (softest combination), 1/15, iso 3200, handheld. I can give PEFs to everyone who's asking for.
Pentax Photo Laboratory only, the only slider moved was Ev compensation to negative, Normal, no colour correction, no curves, no NR, resized and croped 100% with XNview.
Other observations:
- First one, overexposed like 1/3 stop too much (180 sync wall), sorry for the sunburns; subject has a very smooth skin, greenish walls in the room; I have had K20, my first SLR, by a month only then,
just with some compact and bridge experience.
I like that Pentax preserves skin colour and detail at high iso, some competition (colegue with Nikon D90) looks very often like a skin disease even at iso 1600.
To be fair, that Nikon guy uses his camera only like a P&S, full Auto with factory defaults, straight jpg. I managed to get some iso 1600 NEF's from him and still can't get the skin right, it's still somehow wrong, livid like a corpse.
- Second one, just a snap, please ignore wires (no other angles); the writings on building is old and dusty but I think bas-relief is good enough. Light was mixed, sodium and halogen.
- I'm just a beginner and "a cheap donk of a user who has a camera body and a couple of consumer zoom lenses, and buys third party glass to save a couple of dollars" (Wheatfield, impersonal)
and I don't understand how could some skillfull review people manage to get such
horrible noisy high iso pictures from K20...