a lot of these could have been made better by user settings. as said earlier in this thread, i could have used manual auto, and set it for the spot that the light was brightest.
the second setting i could have used, was autofucus lock, wich would have helped significantly on the shots i took ealier in the night. theres one of them on there thats really nicely focused on the singer.
the other problem with shooting in places like that, was that in order to keep a 1/15 shutter speed, i needed it to be at iso 400, and sometimes 800. so they are quite grainy...
the all really should have been on 1/60'th to get a good stop action, but the blur is what made a few of them.
second, single autofocus, instead of constant. with the auto focus lock, (press the auto focus lock button BEFORE you press the shutter button, as it will throw away the lock you have with the shutter. if you press the lock button first, it will work like a charm everytime.) you can snap away shots at 1.5 frames a second for 10 frames, without a single focus problem to deal with.
the guy in the very last shot was the hardest to catch (that shot was after the show was over), had i been closer, it would have helped as well, but do the pit, and the camera having an extended lens.... it also would have helped has i not had it zoomed in for a lot of shots, again, having an apeture of 3.9 bumped the shutter up as well...
overall, do to low light AND fast motion, i got 30 out of 300 shots, wich is more then i expected.
the reason a lot of the pictures are highly red is not because of white balance or red noise
it was an actual red light they had, as shown by the green light on the drummer.
hope these can help some... there were a few shots i have that focused on the actual light in back of the person, as it was stationary, and had higher contrast. so, when shootijng in a place like that, be very very away of the settings of you camera. had i more battery, and a better sense of the place, i probably could have gotten 50-80 out of 300. (i wouldnt expect more do to blur. even with a 2.0 lens youd have had to work the scene)
http://www.pbase.com/sethmurdoc/5700&page=3
as a side note - 0 post editing.
the large size looks really over compressed, but the full size looks as they should.
sorry bout the few hotpixels.... they arent visible until 4 seconds on iso 100 (well... visible at 2, but that has to be pitch black)
I have heard several comments about the autofocus problem in poor
light. I am considering buying a 5700 and would like to know how
much of a problem this is. Am I going to come across it in normal
use, or is it really only something that occurs when people try to
stretch the limits and take speciallised pictures ?
Phil H.
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