|
Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-06-2010, 11:11 PM
|
| |
Thank you everyone for the helpful replies. I wasn't expecting this much input. I feel warmly welcomed.
In any case, I see a K-5 is in my future. I'm going to track its price for a bit here. Maybe it'll drop some more after the holidays.
Thanks again.
|
|
Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-04-2010, 06:04 PM
|
| |
I have a special interest in hand-held low light photography -- in particular, night time street photography. Presently I use a Nikon D70 with f/1.8 or 1.4 prime lenses. Usually I shoot wide open at ISO 1600 with a slow shutter speed in order to capture enough light. I have to brighten virtually every photo in post-processing. Every so often I get a few keepers, but most of the time the results fail to represent what I initially intended to capture due to lack of detail (too dark) or blurriness or both.
Recently I had the opportunity to shoot with a friend's Canon T2i under similar low light conditions and the results consistently blew my D70 results out of the water. Adding insult to injury, the T2i was equipped with a slower f/2.8 lens the entire time. I presume this is due to much less noisy sensors. I'd love to try a K-5 but I don't know anywhere I can borrow one.
Initially I was eyeing up the D700 and D7000, but the low light DXO marks of the Pentax K-5 coupled with in-body SR is very attractive to me. Is it worth jumping the Nikon ship for the K-5? I don't have any super expensive Nikon glass I'm attached to, and I'd have to sell off my Sigma 30/1.4 if I upgraded to a full-frame D700 anyway. Comments and suggestions appreciated.
|
