John Edwin Mason wrote:
>
> One learns how not to cause problems, mostly by being
> in every way as invisible and inaudible as possible.
>
> I've found that when shooting acoustic jazz and
> classical music, my 5N is going to cause problems
> because it's too noisy in every aspect of its
> operation and its antiquated autofocus is going to
> hunt (zip-zip-zip-zip-zip) in even moderately low
> light. (Flash and autofocus assist, even infrared,
> are utterly out of the question. Imagine how
> distracting a flashing red light on the camera would
> be.)
I've had quite some success at a local folk venue, even with
such notoriously nervous performers as June Tabor & Martin Carthy
(in fact I'm going back there tonight to see Waterson: Carthy;
I don't know if I'll be allowed to take photographs, but I'm hoping).
Trying to be *too* inconspicuous can sometimes be counter-productive;
move normally, if you must move.
Standing at the back of the club with a 300/2.8 isn't inconspicuous,
but at least that way shutter noise isn't a problem. I've found that
using the 50/1.4 gets me too close to be really comfortable, although
those extra two stops are really nice under typical club lighting. The
ideal lens would be an 85/1.4, but I don't own one of those (yet ...)
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