K3iii High ISO at The Deep Hull

PRYorkshire
Posted 05/03/2022 - 22:16 Link
A couple of shots trying out the K3iii at The Deep in Hull. The tanks are quite dark so tried an ISO of 12,800 in order to achieve a workable speed. Both shots are JPEGs from the camera using in camera noise reduction. Quite pleased with the results for saying they are taken through thick glass of the tank with the Pentax HD DA 16-85 lens.

1. Jelly Fish - cropped and vignette added in Photoshop but otherwise JPEG straight from camera 1/50 sec f6.3

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2. Shark - JPEG straight from camera 1/50 sec f6.3

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Paul

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Edited by PRYorkshire: 05/03/2022 - 22:19
K10D
Posted 05/03/2022 - 22:33 Link
They both look great. Well done.

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davidwozhere
Posted 06/03/2022 - 00:15 Link
You can't complain about those!
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LongTimeLurker
Posted 06/03/2022 - 00:15 Link
It's not an easy place to use a camera: generally busy and noisy. I gave up using my camera, putting it away and enjoying the marine life instead!

You've done well with both of these and I particularly like the one of the shark.
Nigel.

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Chrism8
Posted 06/03/2022 - 08:52 Link
LongTimeLurker wrote:
You've done well with both of these and I particularly like the one of the shark.
+1
Chris

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Edited by Chrism8: 06/03/2022 - 08:53
Posted 06/03/2022 - 12:52 Link
+1 to all of the above. Really great shots.
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OldTaffy
Posted 06/03/2022 - 15:44 Link
Love them both! That is a heck of a high ISO. Is there just a trace of colour noise on the shark?
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PRYorkshire
Posted 06/03/2022 - 17:05 Link
OldTaffy wrote:
Love them both! That is a heck of a high ISO. Is there just a trace of colour noise on the shark?
There is a trace of noise on the shark body. I took both JPEG and Raw files. I had in camera noise reduction on and when I compared the in camera processed JPEG with the Raw file processed in Adobe Camera Raw to reduce the noise the in camera JPEG was far more acceptable.
Paul

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cardiffgareth
Posted 06/03/2022 - 18:56 Link
Yeah like that shark image!
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Sry
Posted 07/03/2022 - 15:37 Link
Jellyfish for me, great light and fluid lines.
Jonathan-Mac
Posted 08/03/2022 - 09:17 Link
They look very good. I had much worse results last year at the Oceanographic in Valencia, using my K-3 and HD FA 35/2. The K-3 III seems to have much better noise control and also superior AF (neither of which is a surprise).
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PRYorkshire
Posted 08/03/2022 - 16:25 Link
Many thanks for all the comments. The one thing that did surprise me was just how good the in-camera noise control is, far better than anything I could achieve processing the raw file in Adobe Camera Raw.
Paul

K1000, Espio 140, ist, istD, K70, K3iii and numerous lenses, just don't tell my wife.

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