Photos of New York seen through my Pentax K-5's Viewfinder

**scumonkey** · July 25th, 2012, 01:43 AM

Replacement camera arrived this afternoon... WOW what an upgrade!
The k-5 blows away the k-7, especialy when taking nite pics.

here are two quick test shots taken after midnight, handheld while walking my dog.
if I had used my old rig you'd see nothing but noise. Can't wait for daylight.

**Don31** · July 25th, 2012, 08:13 AM

Very impressive scumonkey, very nice

**scumonkey** · July 29th, 2012, 02:49 AM

thank you!

**scumonkey** · July 29th, 2012, 02:49 AM

**scumonkey** · July 29th, 2012, 02:50 AM

**scumonkey** · July 29th, 2012, 02:50 AM

**scumonkey** · July 29th, 2012, 02:51 AM

**lofter1** · July 29th, 2012, 09:51 AM

Is the camera that much better, or have you just become more skillful?

btw: great shots.

**scumonkey** · July 29th, 2012, 01:21 PM

Thanks-
The camera is actually that much better...
much faster, different & bigger sensor, way higher ISO 51200, + much less noise!

**Don31** · July 30th, 2012, 01:30 PM

Awesome shots as usual. Are any of those (Brooklyn Bridge) HDRs?

**scumonkey** · July 30th, 2012, 03:07 PM

The BB is a single raw file that was moderately tone mapped.
The storage shot was heavily post processed using a solarization layer,
the other three are right out of the camera with just a little noise and sharpening correction.