On Mar 18, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Sandra Hermann wrote:
Your cheapest fast glass is going to be a 50/1.4 supertak
with an adapter. If you play your craigslist cards
right, you can get the glass for free, or with an old spotty
for $50. M42 adapters are about $20. The problem with using
the old lenses is that they get you spoiled for build
quality.
Well Crap I gave one of those to my cousin because, my mom's cousin
gave it to me and Ben had a very old pentax camera but no lens.
Crap Crap Crap. I can't quite go ask the kid for it back. It would
break his heart.
No good deed goes unpunished.
What glass do you have?
Try higher ISOs. I'm almost always shooting
stationary objects at base ISO, but for dance or marital
arts, I'll push the ISO pretty hard. High ISO noise
will often look better in black and white.
I was shooting at ISO 100 for this set of pictures. The Sensi's
wife wants them blown up and hung on the walls.
When I'm in a new, or a challenging, situation, I vary things all over
the place. I bracket ISO, focus, shutter speed, f/stop in the hopes
that one of the combinations will work. With luck I learn something
and the next time I can try fewer combinations and have more things
that work.
I need to get off my butt and finish working on this
project, but here's something I'm writing about shooting
action in low light:
http://red4est.com/lrc/photowriting/
specifically:
http://red4est.com/lrc/photowriting/photoing_blues.txt
http://red4est.com/lrc/photowriting/blues_photo_equip.txt
http://red4est.com/lrc/photowriting/photoing_blues_notes.txt
Thanks for sharing. I will read it now!
I hope it helps.
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Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est
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