dude163
Active member
Hi all,
Ive been to 3 birthday bashes this week and I was using my trusty M8 with cron 50/2 on it. I find that shooting above ISO 640 gets me too much grain /noise so i was sort of thinking about what would be my best bet for shots?
here is what i came up with for fixes/solutions
1: maybe invest in a faster lens? perhaps a CV 1.4 of some sort or a 'lux ( expensive) Noctilux ( impossible as my wife would kill me, then resurrect me to kill me again )
2: Maybe get a body that has better high ISO performance ( a M9 ? sell the m8u and some junk off to generate enough for a used one? or is it only 1-2 stops better? )
3: use a flash Mecablitz for the win, I could use it in manual mode and reduce the output to 1/64th or 1/128th as I dislike the look of flash on my kids , because they are half human half amoeba
4: shoot higher ISO and convert to B+W ( free!)
What I ended up doing was using my pentax KX DSLR with its FA 50/1.4 autofocus lens for the shots I needed ( cake stuff etc) and the M8 for the shots I wanted so i wasnt totally lost but is there something I am overlooking?
thanks for any advice and/or tips
Robert
Ive been to 3 birthday bashes this week and I was using my trusty M8 with cron 50/2 on it. I find that shooting above ISO 640 gets me too much grain /noise so i was sort of thinking about what would be my best bet for shots?
here is what i came up with for fixes/solutions
1: maybe invest in a faster lens? perhaps a CV 1.4 of some sort or a 'lux ( expensive) Noctilux ( impossible as my wife would kill me, then resurrect me to kill me again )
2: Maybe get a body that has better high ISO performance ( a M9 ? sell the m8u and some junk off to generate enough for a used one? or is it only 1-2 stops better? )
3: use a flash Mecablitz for the win, I could use it in manual mode and reduce the output to 1/64th or 1/128th as I dislike the look of flash on my kids , because they are half human half amoeba
4: shoot higher ISO and convert to B+W ( free!)
What I ended up doing was using my pentax KX DSLR with its FA 50/1.4 autofocus lens for the shots I needed ( cake stuff etc) and the M8 for the shots I wanted so i wasnt totally lost but is there something I am overlooking?
thanks for any advice and/or tips
Robert
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