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Originally Posted by esa
What types of venues will you be shooting at? Arena tours are so brightly lit that any camera/lens combo will do. In small clubs you will likely find that even the fastest zoom lenses (f2.8) are too slow for the job. It took four years of watching Fiddler shoot ProgPower for me to realize that he almost never shoots with zooms, for a good reason (the downside is having to buy and carry two bodies.)
But wait, there's more -- should you meter or shoot fully manual exposure? And as you might expect, to get a dozen good shots from a show you have to shoot a LOT more than 12 frames. That brings up the "workflow" challenges -- filtering and processing NNN or NNNN frames down to NN. And now that you're post-processing *all* images, should you shoot RAW instead of JPG? (Yes.)
Feel free to PM or email for more ramblings on the subject. It's my favorite. :-)
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Me too.
So you usually shoot in RAW? I've avoided that at events like ProgPower because to the number of photos I take and the huge amount of memory used by that format. What software do you use?
Shooting low light, fast motion in smaller clubs has been the greatest challenge for me and I've only partially mastered it. Especially since I frequently have to get photos of the drummers. I'd love to hear how others are dealing with it. I have Nikons and plan on sticking with that, because of the lenses. Not ready to invest in starting over. Most often for long events, I use the D40 because it's so much easier to handle/carry and I've mastered the menu and manual shooting issue, which only applies to one of my lenses.