On 19 Jul 2005 at 10:28, Scott Loveless wrote: > No, I don't need to shoot B&W. I want to. You have a good point, > though, and most of the negatives will probably end up scanned. But I > have no *istD/DS or any other digital SLR. My wife says I'm not > allowed to take the 750z to a smokey nightclub. So it's film.
Bummer, I used to use D3200/T-Max regularly in my stage work, I miss the cameras I used to use but I now have markedly better results using my DSLR. I still shoot the same way, fast lenses nearly wide open, usually a 20 or 24 (depending on how close the performers are to the stage edge and how close I can get), a 31 or 50 for band wide view and a long lens of 85 to 200 depending on the venue again. No flash, high ISO, no coffee, no coke, use walls, chairs or anything else for stability. Pre-determine your exposure settings based on the main lighting patterns, try to keep your shutter speed up to 1/60 or faster to reduce blur due to subject movement. Pre-focus, listen to the track and pick the points to hit the shutter button when the action is either hyper or very sedate, anything between is difficult to present as a still image. Great shots can be had on or just after the last note :-) Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
