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Leo Bicknell
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| Indoors, Low Light
When I started taking pictures most were outdoors, with lots of light. Lately I've been asked to take more and more indoor photos, and find my lense selection is all wrong. I've been pondering what my upgrades should be, but I find myself confused.
I currently own a 300D. I'm a little hesitant about EF-S lenses, thinking I may go "full frame" in the future. Indoors I've tried the "kit" lense (18-55, my only EF-S lense), my EF 28-135 IS USM Zoom (which often has a very useful zoom range, taking pictures at weddings and conferences you're rarely up close it seems), and my 50mm F1.4 prime.
The first two just don't have the performance I need. Wide open, ISO 1600, and it's still dicy in many rooms. It's amazing how dim the lighting can be in some places. The 50mm prime seems to always deal with the light level, while making framing the shot properly almost impossible.
I've never used one of the many f/2.8 lenses available. They are generally expensive. Those who have shot indoors a lot, are they fast enough to get the job done? Do I need a body with ISO 3200 to have a chance at a decent image? Will 3200 make the quality so poor I won't ever use it?
FWIW, I also have a 580EX speedlight, but I almost never use it indoors. Most of the time I'm too far away so it seems to throw off the metering resulting in improper exposure. That or I don't know how to use it / set up the camera properly...
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5-26-2006 03:58PM
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Bob Atkins
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If you do a lot of low light work indoors your best bet would be to practice with the 580EX and learn how to use it. Pretty much every pro photographer would use flash under such conditions. Just look at wedding photographers for example.
You could use fast lenses and high ISO settings, but you'll get noisy images and you'll certainly limit yourself to expensive lenses (especially if you want to use zooms).
There is a new Tamron 17-50/2.8 zoom which I'm testing right now. It does not have full frame coverage, but it's "only" about $450. So far it looks like a really nice lens and it's as fast as a zoom lens gets.
Image stabilization can help of course, in fact it can give you an extra 3 stops of "handholdability", making even slow zooms the equal or better of f2.8 zooms. You already have just about the best fast lens in the 50/1.4 if you can live with a prime.
Last edited by Bob Atkins on 5-27-2006 08:01PM
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