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hey guys going to my gf's grad fashion show in couple weeks, but i wanna take some pics ofcourse, it'll be in their school gym so it'll most likely be a fair amount of low light except the light that shines on the stage while they model. What kind of lens do you guys recommend i use ? I only have the 50mm 1.8 and 18-55mm that came with the XSi
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Ideally, you would want to keep your shutter speed around 1/80, so, adjust your ISO accordingly (I'd suggest go shutter priority and fixed that shutter)
Ultimately, if you get early access to the show and can grab a good spot, I'd even fix the focus. (set a pre-determined spot you'd shoot and leave it to MF) So, whenever the model walks to your sweet-spot, you fire the shutter.
hey guys going to my gf's grad fashion show in couple weeks, but i wanna take some pics ofcourse, it'll be in their school gym so it'll most likely be a fair amount of low light except the light that shines on the stage while they model. What kind of lens do you guys recommend i use ? I only have the 50mm 1.8 and 18-55mm that came with the XSi
You can find a cheap 55-250mm on craigslist for under $200.00 which will be perfect! Other then that you wont have enough reach with those lenses unless your walking about the gym and not sitting in your seat the whole time..
Trying out ISO 25,600 of my camera for the first time. With Lightroom you can really do lots to 'recover' the image. Pretty amazing.
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I'm pretty new to editing, but how did you get rid of all the noise? I have photoshop and i've never tried Lightroom before, should I get on that? Thanks
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It does pretty good but I definitely prefer the less noisy 40D shot obviously.
Agreed im just amazed at how much progres has come to cell phone cameras in a few short years and the n8successor is due later this year which is supposedly going to blow it out of the water
You can find a cheap 55-250mm on craigslist for under $200.00 which will be perfect! Other then that you wont have enough reach with those lenses unless your walking about the gym and not sitting in your seat the whole time..
I can certainly say from experience, you won't have ideal shutter speeds with that lens in fashion show lighting. For a 55-250, you'd want something faster than 1/80. Also given the fact that the XSi's max ISO is 1600 (and not a particularly clean 1600), that still won't be enough to get you a fast enough shutter speed.
What you can hope for is just burst everything and hope that you get a good shot- but I'd suspect you'd have a fairly low keeper rate.
You're better off using whatever lenses you have- I'd expect the runway to be stationary, so just grab a good spot early and stay there, like what was already suggested by Hehe.
Also, keep in mind that at 1.8 the DOF will be fairly shallow, so you'll probably expect soft-looking photos. My suggestion is if you want sharp faces, make sure they face you before you shoot, and just burst it to improve your chances at a good shot.
I can certainly say from experience, you won't have ideal shutter speeds with that lens in fashion show lighting. For a 55-250, you'd want something faster than 1/80. Also given the fact that the XSi's max ISO is 1600 (and not a particularly clean 1600), that still won't be enough to get you a fast enough shutter speed.
What you can hope for is just burst everything and hope that you get a good shot- but I'd suspect you'd have a fairly low keeper rate.
You're better off using whatever lenses you have- I'd expect the runway to be stationary, so just grab a good spot early and stay there, like what was already suggested by Hehe.
Also, keep in mind that at 1.8 the DOF will be fairly shallow, so you'll probably expect soft-looking photos. My suggestion is if you want sharp faces, make sure they face you before you shoot, and just burst it to improve your chances at a good shot.
why not rent the 70-200 from beau? is using a flash a possibility?
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So Nokia is going to be introducing the successor to their phone the N8 this year; its expected to be introduced at MWC (mobile world congress) @ the end of the month
The N8 as some of you may have noticed me speaking about in the past and just above (also sharing my own pics) has been dubbed the "smartphone camera king" since it was released back in 2010 and has maintained that role to date; its got the largest camera sensor in a phone 1/1.83" (large than most p&s @ the time of its release)
Anyhow the successor is known to have an actual Zoom function which was assumed to be perhaps a 1x-2x Optical zoom
but Nokia has dubbed their zoom function "TrueZoom" and the rumor is Nokia will be putting a large sensor in the phone and utilize a very high megapixel setting instead to get this zoom function working, like a backwards digital zoom i guess?
this was seen somewhat in the Nokia N8 where when recording video the digital zoom function would exhibit Zero loss in quality as the 720p video utilized the entire 12mpx camera sensor
so the rumor and early leaks of information indicates that the N8 successor will have something around 40 megapixels! to attain this "true zoom" ability
what are your thoughts on this? does the prospect of Noise make you go or have you guys seen something similar to this in actual cameras that make you go (hmm i guess it would be kinda like those gigapixel photos no? but those make use of a tonne of sensors no?)
im rather but Nokia has never disappointed me when it came to their "cameraphone kings" so im pretty excited to see whats announced in a couple weeks
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im just amazed at how much progres has come to cell phone cameras in a few short years and the n8successor is due later this year which is supposedly going to blow it out of the water
or have you guys seen something similar to this in actual cameras that make you go 
(hmm i guess it would be kinda like those gigapixel photos no? but those make use of a tonne of sensors no?)
but Nokia has never disappointed me when it came to their "cameraphone kings" so im pretty excited to see whats announced in a couple weeks
