onasj
Nice series. I would like to know about your exposures like SS, ISO, was f stop f4.0, etc. How are you firing the ES? Like with the IQ3100 with the button on the LCD?
All images were shot wide open (f/4) to keep ISOs comfortably low, though in retrospect the noise was low enough that I could have gone to f/5.6. ISO was generally around 2000, adjusted on the fly based on the lighting conditions. Shutter was 1/250-1/320 mostly, and occasionally 1/400 when the actors were moving quickly. ES was fired with the button on the LCD screen. I used 16 bit large image quality, not 16EX. 14 might have been equivalent at these ISOs. Surprisingly, IQ4 sensor readout time under these settings was fast enough that none of my images suffered from obvious rolling shutter human deformities (you can see one deformed hand in the dancers shaking water image, but it doesn’t really detract from the image), even during action shots, probably in part because I was sitting far enough away that the subjects were not too many pixel rows tall.
The nice feature of this setup is that the entire outfit when packed in ready-to-shoot configuration is smaller than my Nikon DSLR!. Everything (IQ4, lens, Alpa TV + 2 spare batteries) fits into an “F-stop Tiny Micro” bag with the dimensions of an iPad mini, but ~4” thick, which makes it practical for stage and street photography. I added a shoulder strap and now I can carry this outfit with me just about anywhere without drawing attention or provoking the ire of security.
Being a tech cam, ISO, focus, shutter, and aperture were of course all adjusted manually.
