6FORTY

June 12, 2025

Surely I won't be starting a new run club & calling it the 640; it has a catchy name and is slightly a more manageable time than the regular runners of Bronte cutting at 440. I don't think so! I'm not quite the runner..

6 Forty comes on my accidental insistence on photographing absolutely everything at iso 640 (camera talk for sensitivity of the sensor; think film sensitivity) yesterday. Usually I have a combination of flicking up and scrolling low. Why 640? It was early and my brain wasn't spinning. So you ask, is photographing at 640 such a terrible idea? No, not at all. Modern mirrorless and dslr cameras can easily handle semi-high iso without introducing too much grain (camera talk for speckled spots in the blacks). If I had been capturing one of those magic fire-lit Bondi sunrises hoping to maintain as much detail as possible, iso 640 may not have been the go. Surfers hacking through the line-up at speed though was perfect. The high iso allows for HIGH shutter speeds and therefor action frozen in time.. 

I'd also rate yesterday 640 out of 10. It was simply stunning!

<< This makes it look toasty. I can assure you it certainly wasn't!

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