On Oct 23, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > Vocalist Yuko Miyamoto at jazz saxist Bobby Hsu's gig at The Gate 403 > in Toronto on Oct 19. > > http://www.flickr.com/bruce_m_walker/8117649662/lightbox/ > > This was a dimly lit club set where I was struggling to get any > non-soft shots at all. At one point I accidentally bumped the mode > dial from Av to Tv and it set a high shutter speed of 1/160th, then > underexposed at f:1.4. Astoundingly these few shots -- until I found > the dial set "wrong" and set it back -- were among the sharpest of the > evening. It looks a lot like handholding at low shutter speeds > contributes to much softness that I'd thought was bad focus. I'm going > to explore this fast shutter in the dark in future.
I was astonished by how much my "keeper ratio" improved when I started using a monopod when shooting at speeds below 1/20 second with the FA31. I'm capable of holding steady at much lower shutter speeds than that, it's just that in the heat of the moment, it seemst that I often fail to. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
