Spend all the money you wish, but no camera I've seen can autofocus in
that kind of situation. My friend's D20 can't. Use manual focus and
fast primes.
On Sep 25, 2005, at 11:41 PM, McRae, Max MS wrote:
Charles wrote:
I tried to take some photos at a show with my "kit" lens and figured
out after about 5 minutes that it was a hopeless disaster. Too dark,
the focus would take forever. <remainder snipped>
I had exactly the same problem on the weekend trying to photograph
dancers in a hall lit only with spots.
I wasn't allowed to use flash, so had to use 1600 ISO, keep my
2.8 Sigma 70 -200 wide open, and override the shutter to read
1/250th to try and stop movement.
What a joke...I took over 1000 exposures and 99% are complete junk.
The auto focus on the *IstD is hopelessly inadequate for this kind of
low light work.
I lost a lot of money on this shoot, so I'm looking to buy a camera
that
will do
the job...possibly a Canon D20.
Any advise out there welcomed.
Max
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