Hi Derby Yeah, it's impossible to use autofocus, plus the noise - although with your daughter's friend's band, I don't think they'd notice :-) - I just manual focus all, and I do have some trouble. (I'm going to try out the KatzEye rangefinder prism in a couple of weeks) .
I try to control my ISO because I can adjust for darker or brighter exposure. I found that using auto ISO many times just picks the wrong one, although the new restraints in the menu are interesting. I let the camera choose the aperture and shutter speed, and hold my breath (grin). When I'm serious, I bring along a monopod, use my Leica sometimes my LX with colour negative film. You can see that I'm not very concerned with ultrasharp :-) but I do try to get the eyes as sharp as possible so as to define the person. Curiously most portraits I've seen in mags have the artists with closed eyes, and mine are mostly the same. herb PS What do I have to do to get the odd foto up here? Help anybody?? Derby wrote: >Herb, I had the camera on Auto ISO (which I always do when lighting is >unpredictable). Most of the shots turned out to be 3200 - it was very dark there. FA31, and manual focus (again too dark for the poor ol' SAFOX).
