richard plumb
Distinguished Member
took some photos at my son's birthday party yesterday. Some activities were outdoors in the sun, so I had no problem at low ISO at good shutter speeds. But then the games went indoors to a sports hall.
Very low light and I had trouble getting a decent shutter speed even at ISO 1600 at f4 (the fastest my 24-105 would go). I'm annoyed I didn't bring along my new 60mm 2.8 macro as the length was about right and the extra stop would have helped (but not completely). As it was I was about a stop underexposed at 1/100 second which still wasn't quite quick enough for jumping children.
The result was very noisy images - lots of random colour noise, very nasty and pretty much unusable IMO.
Is this something that the 350d is particularly bad at? Are newer bodies much better at handling high ISO noise? As it is I'd avoid ISO 1600 completely, which renders it pointless even having it.
Any other suggestions? All a 2.8 lens would have done would have let me be at least the correct exposure at 1/100, but I'd still have needed 1600 ISO, and even 3200 would have helped get the speed up.
oh, and a couple of examples - guess which is which :/
Very low light and I had trouble getting a decent shutter speed even at ISO 1600 at f4 (the fastest my 24-105 would go). I'm annoyed I didn't bring along my new 60mm 2.8 macro as the length was about right and the extra stop would have helped (but not completely). As it was I was about a stop underexposed at 1/100 second which still wasn't quite quick enough for jumping children.
The result was very noisy images - lots of random colour noise, very nasty and pretty much unusable IMO.
Is this something that the 350d is particularly bad at? Are newer bodies much better at handling high ISO noise? As it is I'd avoid ISO 1600 completely, which renders it pointless even having it.
Any other suggestions? All a 2.8 lens would have done would have let me be at least the correct exposure at 1/100, but I'd still have needed 1600 ISO, and even 3200 would have helped get the speed up.
oh, and a couple of examples - guess which is which :/