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G85 overheating? record time? light sensitivity? stabilization?

Started Jan 25, 2018 | Discussions thread
JosephScha Veteran Member • Posts: 7,249
Re: G85 - with kit lenses
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You wrote:

"... a church or hotel meeting room. Those are a real unknown. ... The plan is to use, 2 G85s - each with the kit lens"

Well if you insist on using the kit lens ...  I suppose 14-42mm is a reasonable zoom range for indoor work,  but the minimum f stop you can achieve - especially at 42mm - is somewhat high.  And church interiors can be quite dim.

Let's assume that in the church you could shoot at 1/100 sec at f/1.4 at ISO 200, with an f/1.4 lens.

That's 1/50 sec at f/2; 1/25 sec t f/2.8; 1/12 sec at f/4; 1/6 sec at f/5.6.     Or, alternatively, to keep 1/100 sec at f/5.6 you would need to use ISO 3200.  I think you will find noise at ISO 3200 to be undesirable. It's not that you can't get tame it, you can; but of course at the expense of sharpness.

Therefore if you have extra money laying around I suggest you should consider getting the rather inexpensive 42.5mm f/1.7, so at least at the long end of your kit zoom range - where the minimum f stop is f/5.6 - you have the option of a much faster lens (which will require more critical focus!).   (If you have tons of extra money you might consider the 12-35mm f/2.8 )

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