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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-14-2011, 05:43 PM
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Hey Bob - I haven't broke down and got the K-5 yet, but the settings can't be that much different on my K-20D. I've been shooting my kids high school soccer & baseball for the last couple of years, and I've found that for soccer there are no guarantees under 1/640th for shutter speed. Anything slower than that and I'll end up with motion blur on many shots (those girls are fast!). ;-)
For baseball it seems like about 1/400th will do a pretty good job of freezing a batter's swing, and 1/500th will stop a pitcher's motion. I generally don't shoot below 1/400th at baseball games unless I know I'm going to shoot a group of "bench shots", coach/player discussions, etc.
Of course those speeds depend on the available light - but since baseball & soccer are both outdoors the above numbers apply to day games that are sunny to partly cloudy. That allows me to shoot in an ISO range of 100 - 400. I don't usually like to go higher than that with the K20D - Of course that just makes the high ISO range of the K5 that much more appealing.
Hope that helps a little bit.....
Tim
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