[kaitou]

Meh, I know this is from a bit back, but I’ll still comment. Might help someone else in a similar situation. I was doing shots at a friends band act, and what saved me most was the el cheapo 50mm f1.8 lens with ISO 1600. Get the 50mm, it’s like $70, and the fastest lens you can get for your money. (‘course if you have the cash, spring the $270 for the 1.4, or the $1200 for the 1.2) I like flash, but
1. most venues don’t allow it,
and
2. it can ruin the ambiance.

So slow down the shutter to maybe 1/60th of a second, open the lens wide, and have at it. As long as you are reasonably close to the action, the 50mm will focus fine, and you should get a bunch of keepers. Also, when you’re in a situation like that, make sure continuous shot mode is on, and take two or three shots of every composition. Your depth of field is pretty narrow, so hedge your bets.

[kaitou]

lol thanks

[kaitou]

A couple of things to caution about here also.

Don’t confuse the older 75-300 with the current 70-300 lens. The new one stands heads above the older one, and can come close the the quality of some L glass, you can check out the review of it here: http://www.photo.net/equipment/canon/70-300is/review.html

The IS on it is great, as I can hand-hold 1/30th of a second at the full 300mm with it.

However, as said above, you will get better quality from the similarly priced 70-200L f/4 (When wide open, at f8, the two look near identical). It doesn’t have IS, and doesn’t have the extra 100mm of reach, but it will focus faster, and is better built.

Since I already had the 70-200L f/2.8, I got the 70-300 so that I always had a long zoom with me, since the L is way too heavy to cart around daily.

The DO, I tried, and it got worse results then the non-DO (for me, YMMV) also its’ bokkeh(background blurring) wasn’t as good. 28-135 is a decent lens. better then the kit lens, but amazing it isn’t.

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