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Hi Jack, did you do any noise reduction on your photo? The noise doesn't look to bad. Also, I am very impressed with your hand holding capability with the 120m at 1/60 sec.

For some reason the color doesn't look right on the above photos – at least they are not similar to what they look like in LR3. The colors are more muted and the red is more orangish above versus in LR3. I verified that I exported to sRGB so that isn't the problem.

I was shooting some portraits in the deep shade with another photographer last weekend. Handheld, I had to go to 1250 to keep camera shake out of a 120mm lens. He was shooting another camera and he was amazed at what the S2 could do. He also loved the simplicity of the S controls versus his camera. The only control he missed was a dial that could…[Read more]

Mark Gowin;466 wrote: I figured out part of the problem with the photo of Jack Daniels. Instead of shooting at +0.5 EV I shot at -0.5 EV.

Here is another photo taken the same day along with two crops (bright and shadow). This photo is much better regarding noise. Interesting trivia – Chattanooga, TN is home to the very first Coca Cola…

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Atanabe;474 wrote: Spoken like a true retailer 😮 Don't you just miss the days of film and processing revenue?

Memory card sales make up such a small percentage of our sales, are so inexpensive and have such slim margins (if any at all) that my retailer hat is taken off for this one. I have been taking the single-use SD card approach…[Read more]

Spoken like a true retailer 😮 Don't you just miss the days of film and processing revenue?

Not a bad analogy by the way. Instead I take the cost of film and processing and make up for the depreciation on my gear.

David,
Wasn't that an issue with the read/write tab on the card?

Guess I'll chip in as well.

Been fine using Transcend Class 10 8GB and 16GB SDHC cards. On the first version of M9 firmware, I had a compatibility issue (no card found) when using the Transcend Class 6 8GB*. These also work fine now.

* Thanks to Al for loaning me some of his extra SD cards when I was in Seattle and my brand new 8GBs…[Read more]

Never had a single problem! I have a San Disk Extreme HD Video 8gb card. It is a 20mb/s card. Not so fast, perhaps, but it seems to work fine for me. I think I will stick with it until the problems are all sorted…

My Sandisk 8gb Extreme class 10 SD card died in camera. I think the process was – review image, zoom image (red light flashing), then accidentally hit the shutter button – not acquiring an image. Then the card was dead – I could take another image but it would not record. The card could not be read in either Mac or PC. Could not even format…[Read more]

I just found this forum too after following a link to it from the L-Camera form. I shoot B&W through an M6 and an Mamiya C330F. I shoot maybe 10 to 20 rolls per year and do my own developing.

Wayne

I figured out part of the problem with the photo of Jack Daniels. Instead of shooting at +0.5 EV I shot at -0.5 EV.

Here is another photo taken the same day along with two crops (bright and shadow). This photo is much better regarding noise. Interesting trivia – Chattanooga, TN is home to the very first Coca Cola bottling company.

S2 and…[Read more]

Hmmm! Something doesn't look right with the crop above – it isn't as sharp as it appeared in LR. I guess it doesn't matter much since the point of the post was to show the ISO performance. Note there is definitely more visible noise in the shadows.

Here is another ISO 1250 photo and associated crop. This time the photo includes shadows where noise is most visible. As with the previous photo, this one is process as normal, but I did not do any noise reduction. Here the noise is a bit more evident in the shadow of the cave.

The photo is of a statue of Jack Daniels in front of THE cave…[Read more]

Thank you for the compliment David. I am working on a blog post about my time with the Pentax 400mm. It has been an interesting experience. Stay tuned.

Lovely shot Mark and very impressive detail on the crop. That Pentax 400mm looks like a winner to me.

Thank you for the compliments on the photo. It's not the sort of subject one thinks of when shooting a 400mm, but I had walked out in a field a few hundred yards in hopes of capturing a photo of a doe and her very young fawn. I lost track of the doe and fawn and missed the photo I set out for. On the walk back to the car, I liked how the grass was…[Read more]

Wow. VERY impressive shot, Mark. Beyond the fact that ISO 1250 looks so good, the picture is really beautiful. What aperture did you use on the 400mm? The bokeh is really nice.

Mark, nice shot! It really is amazing what the S2 is capable of at ISO1250. I am also very pleased to see such nice results from the Pentax 400mm.

One might ask themselves, why use ISO 1250 in good lighting condition such as those in the photo I posted above. The answer is shutter speed, but to be honest I would have never considered using ISO 1250 just to gain a little bit of shutter speed until Josh posted his article.

In the photo above, I was using a 400mm lens, but I was also…[Read more]