Portable light sources of any kind can be moved to a more appropriate position, the sun can't. When it's cloudy, you have no sun.

Have you seen the OP's location? What sun

Whilst the post relates to a strobist setup, that does not preclude alternative, and possibly better, suggestions.

Constant, or continuous lighting is used more and more nowadays, especially for product shoots and other studio work, due to the coming of age of lighting systems that do not 'cook' the subject.

With continuous lighting you can see where the shadows are much more easily than when using strobes, even those having modelling lights.

Have you considered constant lighting instead of flash?

I supplied information to the original thread based upon figures provided by Lightroom. I didn't lie, I used statistics.

Maybe we'll start seeing some shots of the sun here instead of the moon

Dear Mr. Frogfish . . . . . . . . .

Thanks for the information and taking the time and trouble to put all this information together.

I do have a comment however . . .

The word lens DOES NOT HAVE AN E ON THE END.

Cheers.

I just cancelled an order I placed with WarehouseExpress in March for a Lee Big Stopper 10 stop ND filter and bought one of these Parweld glasses for £2.00 delivered. The Lee would have cost about £100.00.

I figure for the amount I'm likely to use it, the welding glass will do to try out the technique and if I like it enough I can place another order for a Lee and wait another 20 weeks.

£0.38p from here, but £6.40p delivered

Understood Gary. I'm certain that there will never be a camera that is all things to all people. It'd be a bit boring if there were, we'd have nothing to argue about.

You're right on all counts Gwyn. I'm not intent on evangelizing the K5 and denouncing all others. I made this experiment for myself and others who might be interested in high ISO images from a real live situation, rather than meaningless test shots. Pushing the envelope if you like.

Agreed, these are not as good as many of the shots I got on the night because I didn't leave the ISO at 25600, I just wanted a reasonable cross section to choose from using that setting to see for myself what could be achieved and to show them here for anybody who was interested. I don't do brand bashing.

At a couple of the venues I've shot at recently there was a pro news 'tog ( www.simplynetworking.es & www.simplyfotos.es ) Who was using a Nikon D3 and shooting at ISO 6400, as I was for some of the time. I think I'm as pleased with my images as he was with his.

It was a good evening, but a brit blues band in Lorca (not much expat population there) does not attract as many people as they would have hoped, and ended early after 90 minutes. It was still a very good set though.

I like these. I really should try this. I don't have any wide primes but I could use the 12-24mm.