{"id":63,"date":"2006-02-16T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=63"},"modified":"2009-09-07T12:54:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T19:54:57","slug":"on-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/02\/16\/on-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"On speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Not enough light?  Just crank up the ISO!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I was snapping pictures at my son&#8217;s fourth birthday party the other day and rather than use an intrusive flash, I though &#8220;Why not just crank up the ISO on the Canon EOS 5D and see what happens?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So I set the speed to ISO 1600 and let the IS lens do it&#8217;s thing, taking pictures at the f\/4 maximum aperture with the camera setting the shutter as low as 1\/8th second.  The only duds were where the subject moved.  The picture quality is simply breathtaking.  On 35mm film I would be using a Leica with an f\/1.4 lens with ISO 400 film and the grain would be obvious on an 8x enlargement.  With these digital snaps, 13x enlargements are grain free, pores clearly visible.<\/p>\n<p>When all was said and done I reset the ISO back to 650 and snapped this image of my exhausted wife, Elenia, with Bertie the Border Terrier.   There is something amazing going on here.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/EandB.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In this picture of my wife, in the 13&#8243; x 19&#8243; print the details in the window are clearly visible in the reflections on her rather gorgeous American Teeth. At ISO 650.  Hand held by window light.<\/p>\n<p>Advertising hoarding seen on the 101 freeway in Silicon Valley, California, with a picture of the Canon EOS 350 digital camera:  &#8220;Film?  History.&#8221;  Yes indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not enough light? Just crank up the ISO! I was snapping pictures at my son&#8217;s fourth birthday party the other day and rather than use an intrusive flash, I though &#8220;Why not just crank up the ISO on the Canon EOS 5D and see what happens?&#8221; So I set the speed to ISO 1600 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/02\/16\/on-speed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On speed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canon-eos-5d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}