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Dan Marchant wrote in post #16315722
Same menu, first option - Shutter Button. Change "Metering and AF Start" to just "Metering".

mrmaint wrote in post #16316067
Switch to Movie mode and you will find silent control in the menu.

Thanks.

A few from the 24-70L 2.8II
I just started shooting with this lens on Saturday.
I am shocked by it, after shooting with prime lenses for the past few years.
SOOC it's the best I've ever seen.
Lightroom-only user

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100mm Macro @ 2.8

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So I did my first wedding reception at the weekend having recently upgraded from a 450d to a 5D mkiii. The outside shots were fine but indoors, using the 24-105 lens I shot in Av priority and found that the ISO I needed to shoot at around 1/100 was 6400. I thought this would be fine with the 5D but getting the pictures home and zooming in, they are pretty noisey and not particularly sharp. I know I can clear a lot of the noise up in Lightroom but I am a little bit disappointed at how soft some of them are. Is this simply because I’m limited with the speed of my lens or are there any techniques I can use to improve the quality in future?

matttoofif wrote in post #16317724
So I did my first wedding reception at the weekend having recently upgraded from a 450d to a 5D mkiii. The outside shots were fine but indoors, using the 24-105 lens I shot in Av priority and found that the ISO I needed to shoot at around 1/100 was 6400. I thought this would be fine with the 5D but getting the pictures home and zooming in, they are pretty noisey and not particularly sharp. I know I can clear a lot of the noise up in Lightroom but I am a little bit disappointed at how soft some of them are. Is this simply because I’m limited with the speed of my lens or are there any techniques I can use to improve the quality in future?

There's so many variables Matt that it's hard to say... the main one being what type of room was it and how much light was there? If it was a white marquee with windows then it can only get worse, but if you were in a dimly lit room with few windows and wooden panelling all round then things will possibly be easier next time... Were you in a position to use flash? If so that could have helped significantly. At the end of the day, f4 inside isn't the greatest - not unusable, but conditions have to be good to avoid bumping the ISO. Having said that, 6400 on the mk3 should be fine for most things - unless you're shooting a bridal portrait that is likely to on an A2 print for example, then I'd try and use a lower ISO. Hope that helps a bit.

chrismarriott66 wrote in post #16317833
There's so many variables Matt that it's hard to say... the main one being what type of room was it and how much light was there? If it was a white marquee with windows then it can only get worse, but if you were in a dimly lit room with few windows and wooden panelling all round then things will possibly be easier next time... Were you in a position to use flash? If so that could have helped significantly. At the end of the day, f4 inside isn't the greatest - not unusable, but conditions have to be good to avoid bumping the ISO. Having said that, 6400 on the mk3 should be fine for most things - unless you're shooting a bridal portrait that is likely to on an A2 print for example, then I'd try and use a lower ISO. Hope that helps a bit.

Hi Chris, thsanks for replying. The room was OK- a couple of windows but quite a lot of tungsten light. To be honest I could have used flash and bounced it off the white walls or ceiling but I thought I’d be OK to use the natural light at a higher ISO. With hindsight that was a mistake (although Im still a bit confused about how high I can push the ISO and still get decent results- does the focal length affect this?)

matttoofif wrote in post #16317865
Hi Chris, thsanks for replying. The room was OK- a couple of windows but quite a lot of tungsten light. To be honest I could have used flash and bounced it off the white walls or ceiling but I thought I’d be OK to use the natural light at a higher ISO. With hindsight that was a mistake (although Im still a bit confused about how high I can push the ISO and still get decent results- does the focal length affect this?)

I will use 1600 without hesitation, 3200 if necessary, and start to look at other options if I need 6400. I did a wedding last year in a candle lit church with virtually black windows (plus it was dark outside) and to get a nice wide shot of the whole thing I was shooting at something like 16mm, 1/30sec, f2.8, ISO25600. The image was noisy, but it cleaned up okay from the 5d3 - I wouldn't put it on an A2 print though as I say!

The only reason focal length will affect your results is the corresponding shutter speed you require... for example shooting at 24mm then you could get away with a shutter speed of about 1/30 if people aren't moving about too quickly - especially with IS. But 1/30 at 105mm means you could well have a blurry picture - depends how good the IS is and how steady your hand is. 1/30 doesn't guarantee to freeze the motion either, but it gives you 1.5 stops of light over 1/100, for example.

Again it depends what type of shots you were getting, and how much room you had to work with, but in a situation like that, I would probably use my 50mm f1.4 and shoot at about f2, which gives you 2 stops of light over f4 - hence for 1/100 I would have been at ISO1600 instead of 6400. Obviously f2 isn't always practical, especially if you're shooting groups, so flash would have been the answer in this situation - especially if you could have bounced it off the ceiling.