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Newbie, D80 settings for School concert
"cen" wrote in message
... Hey I'm new with a D80 and somewhat limited experience, but have taken some great photos with it. Tomorrow night is concert night in the school auditorium and I'm think about setting it on program mode to shoot. Flash is allowed. Wondering what other settings you'd use. thanks What lenses do you have? Do you have an external flash unit? |
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Newbie, D80 settings for School concert
"cen" wrote in message
... On Dec 22, 12:20 am, Savageduck wrote: On 2008-12-21 21:03:56 -0800, "N" said: "cen" wrote in message ... Hey I'm new with a D80 and somewhat limited experience, but have taken some great photos with it. Tomorrow night is concert night in the school auditorium and I'm think about setting it on program mode to shoot. Flash is allowed. Wondering what other settings you'd use. thanks What lenses do you have? Do you have an external flash unit? Also expected auditorium lighting and shooting distances from subjects? sorry, kit lens 18-135mm, no external flash. Stage lighting at about 50ft minimum. The guide number for the built in flash on a D80 is 13/42 at ISO 100. That means the light from the flash should reach about 42 feet from the camera if you're lucky. Can the onboard flash see over that lens or do you get a dark shadow across the lower edge of the photo? I found with my D80 that ISO 400 was about as far as I'd go before noise became unacceptable. |
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Newbie, D80 settings for School concert
N wrote:
"cen" wrote in message ... On Dec 22, 12:20 am, Savageduck wrote: On 2008-12-21 21:03:56 -0800, "N" said: "cen" wrote in message ... Hey I'm new with a D80 and somewhat limited experience, but have taken some great photos with it. Tomorrow night is concert night in the school auditorium and I'm think about setting it on program mode to shoot. Flash is allowed. Wondering what other settings you'd use. thanks What lenses do you have? Do you have an external flash unit? Also expected auditorium lighting and shooting distances from subjects? sorry, kit lens 18-135mm, no external flash. Stage lighting at about 50ft minimum. The guide number for the built in flash on a D80 is 13/42 at ISO 100. That means the light from the flash should reach about 42 feet from the camera if you're lucky. ???? Umm, no. Distance = GN/*aperture*. So that flash will be struggling to make 11ft at f4 (which will be the maximum aperture he has for most of his shooting)... Can the onboard flash see over that lens or do you get a dark shadow across the lower edge of the photo? I found with my D80 that ISO 400 was about as far as I'd go before noise became unacceptable. The tests I've seen of the D80, eg: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PROD...D80IMAGING.HTM show the 800 and 1600 samples as quite good and very usable for this type of shooting. Depends on your quality standards, of course, but I'd happily accept a bit of noise for more usable shutter speeds, and he is limited by having a f3.5-5.6 lens. |
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Newbie, D80 settings for School concert
"Mark Thomas" wrote in message
... N wrote: "cen" wrote in message ... On Dec 22, 12:20 am, Savageduck wrote: On 2008-12-21 21:03:56 -0800, "N" said: "cen" wrote in message ... Hey I'm new with a D80 and somewhat limited experience, but have taken some great photos with it. Tomorrow night is concert night in the school auditorium and I'm think about setting it on program mode to shoot. Flash is allowed. Wondering what other settings you'd use. thanks What lenses do you have? Do you have an external flash unit? Also expected auditorium lighting and shooting distances from subjects? sorry, kit lens 18-135mm, no external flash. Stage lighting at about 50ft minimum. The guide number for the built in flash on a D80 is 13/42 at ISO 100. That means the light from the flash should reach about 42 feet from the camera if you're lucky. ???? Umm, no. Distance = GN/*aperture*. So that flash will be struggling to make 11ft at f4 (which will be the maximum aperture he has for most of his shooting)... Can the onboard flash see over that lens or do you get a dark shadow across the lower edge of the photo? I found with my D80 that ISO 400 was about as far as I'd go before noise became unacceptable. The tests I've seen of the D80, eg: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PROD...D80IMAGING.HTM show the 800 and 1600 samples as quite good and very usable for this type of shooting. Depends on your quality standards, of course, but I'd happily accept a bit of noise for more usable shutter speeds, and he is limited by having a f3.5-5.6 lens. Thanks Mark. I haven't made a study of flash, just thought I'd make sure the subject didn't get overlooked. I was pretty sure the D80 flash wouldn't reach the distance. |
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Newbie, D80 settings for School concert
"N" wrote:
sorry, kit lens 18-135mm, no external flash. Stage lighting at about 50ft minimum. Then forget about flash (turn it off!!!). The buildin flash doesn't carry that far. jue |
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