Saturday 17 October 2009

Watching the Band

GRD III, f1.9, 1/10, ISO 800, RAW 2:3

I went back to the Cahrlotte Street Blues bar, this has quickly become one of my favorite places in London, the atmosphere is very good and you have live music 7 days a week.
I took a few pictures of the bands playing with the GRD III but noticed that even a f1.9 lens with ISO 1600 is not always enough to capture the motion. This picture is taken at ISO 800 but with the EV at -1 and in 2:3 format but I felt 16:9 worked better. The focus was on the two guys on the side and not on the band so this is why the background is slightly out of focus and overexposed.

3 comments:

  1. The GRD 3 looks OK for noise. maybe too much so. I would rather have more noise and detail. I could not live with the banding this shots shows I would have expected more from a RAW file.

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  2. Rob, I agree fully with you and much prefer the noise of the GRD I.
    The banding is indeed the biggest issue with the GRD III and something that I hope Ricoh will addres in a firmware update. It is quite bad in any underexposed area.

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  3. Good Capture. When I go to venues like this, I always use B&W jpeg with increased sharpening and contrast...then I wait for the motion to stop :)

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