In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan P. Hayes) wrote:
> I definitely will go on using my wide angles, but I'm wanting to get > some isolated portraits, for which the 50mm seems ideal. It is. I do similar stuff indoors at conferences, and use an FA-50/1.4 for almost all of it, usually with autofocus. The 50mm is too long to zone focus in poor light and too narrow for your extension-pole trick to work very well, I reckon. Going up to ISO 3200 might help. The autofocus does take its time in poor light, though. Learning to move in such a way that people register you as a passerby rather than someone paying attention to them helps a lot, but I still reckon to miss a fair few shots. The tricky bit is learning how to use the focus points well. I still haven't quite managed that; I usually just use the central one, but I suspect I could do better if I learned what kind of pattern would work better. -- PDML means I get more e-mail than spam!
