Live music lens question

This is the lens I use almost all the time in the clubs where I shoot. In some of the larger venues I use a different lens. When I shot film I barely used this lens but with the digital conversion, this had become my staple.

I use my 24-70L for gigs. I usually put the iso up to 1600 and then I can get away with shutter speeds around 50-80 depending on the lighting so camera shake isn't that obvious.

Here is one I took last night. It technically wasn't a gig I was just doing shots for their album.

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Sorry, Chris, but I disagree.

This was shot with the 70-200mm f/2.8L (non-IS), about 25 feet from the stage:

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Well, if there's one thing for sure, don't make a blanket statement or say "must" at POTN because we have some of the most argumentative folks in the world participating here and they just cannot leave anything alone.

DwightMcCann wrote:
Well, if there's one thing for sure, don't make a blanket statement or say "must" at POTN because we have some of the most argumentative folks in the world participating here and they just cannot leave anything alone.

Hehehehe... I just wanted an excuse to post one of my Tommy Shaw shots...

tbrasington wrote:
I use my 24-70L for gigs. I usually put the iso up to 1600 and then I can get away with shutter speeds around 50-80 depending on the lighting so camera shake isn't that obvious.

Here is one I took last night. It technically wasn't a gig I was just doing shots for their album.

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That was at iso 1600, f/2.8 , 1/60s.

edit, I also did a bit of photoshop to reduce some of the noise.

Superb shot...perfect!

Steve Parr wrote:
Sorry, Chris, but I disagree.

This was shot with the 70-200mm f/2.8L (non-IS), about 25 feet from the stage:

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Yeah, IS certainly has some very obvious and valuable benefits. But it's certainly not a "must"...

Steve,

I guess I forgot that when I said "must" I was thinking about "us" photographers who don't get to shoot in "PERFECT LIGHT"! There is no arguing the extra stops it gives you relative to keeping your shutter speed up. That we can all agree on!

Eh? There's someone here who doesn't shoot in perfect light?

DwightMcCann wrote:
Eh? There's someone here who doesn't shoot in perfect light?

Oh... the horror...