I've never shot a funeral, but it does happen. I think when relatives gather together from all over the world it's something that a family just might want to record in some way. In some cases people may never meet together again.

If I was asked to cover a funeral I would do so, but I would carefully clarify exactly what was required to avoid stepping on anyone's toes.

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When I had a review copy of the K-S2 I took it on location to a wedding shoot we were doing. It performed just as well as the K-5 in all sorts of difficult lighting, day or night. Looking at your images, the colour does seem a bit odd, almost blue/green in tone and the sharpness is not great. What the reason for this is I cannot guess, but I would start by doing a factory reset on the camera and then setting natural image style and shooting some outdoor JPEG images. You should get sharp, nicely coloured shots right from the start.

If you don't, then time to start looking at a processing problem or a camera fault.

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That's very interesting, a great find.

You could hang on for ever and something else would be just on the horizon. I think sometimes it's possible to lose sight of the fact that cameras are intended for shooting images and they do that rather well already. I'll bet very few of us actually use such huge dynamic ranges, which in themselves already outclass anything that was possible with film.

What's most important is the visual quality of images, and this is one area where Pentax have always seemed to be able to pull more out of Sony sensors than Sony can themselves.

In the context of the film I was using as an example, I was referring to black and white really. As for colour, that generally softens the effect.

Lenses that render detail in a sharp way that gives a gritty appearance to the overall shot. High contrast lenses might have this characteristic. Another description might be "wiry", implying high edge sharpness because of the contrast on low resolution areas.

Another example is the SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.4 lens, which is also gritty and also excellent for photojournalism, just like the 18-135mm.

In film terms, when I used Kodak Tri-X (ISO 400) and developed it in FX-39 it gave the images a gritty appearance, with visible grain that was reproduced crisply. If we wanted less grain then Aculux did the trick, but the edge sharpness was lower. The 18-135mm helps me to produce images with a similar characteristic to using FX-39, which is probably part of why I like it.

The 18-135mm is highly regarded amongst those who use it though, for good reasons. It's a sharp, gritty lens that produces images that look good. High contrast, but lower absolute resolution make it a lens with a useful character to it.

It's the same characteristic that photojournalists liked when they discovered Nikon rangefinder lenses in the 1950s. They looked sharper and grittier than the low contrast, high resolution German lenses they had been using.