Help! quick answer needed. Lens question for concert photographers.

You gott love that shop lol

Ha, no it's not my old lens, i got rid a while ago to my dads friend in york. I guess it could have migrated this far south...

Did buy a battery grip for my old rebel from there though, nice chap.
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shesgotthepic wrote in post #3128551
So the speed aside - how is the quality of the lens?

It's a good lens that enjoys a very good reputation as a daylight walk around lens. I have one that I bought many years ago as an upgrade from the kit lens that would have come with my Elan IIe film camera. I still like it.
-Bruce

Hand held shutter speeds of less than your heart rate... lets say, lower than approx. 1/60th, are risky... cause you might have at least one heart beat, if not two occurring while holding the camera steady...

That's not to mention, getting bumped...getting the coffee shakes...or just fatigue, from holding the camera steady... all these factors lessen the conversion/success rate...

EDIT: Strictly as a monetary investment, and a daytime lens... it seems to be a bargain...

johnstoy wrote in post #3129081
Hand held shutter speeds of less than your heart rate... lets say, lower than approx. 1/60th, are risky... cause you might have at least one heart beat, if not two occurring while holding the camera steady...

you gotta shoot some shows w/ me sometime.

narlus wrote in post #3129151
you gotta shoot some shows w/ me sometime.

Narlus, are you kidding me?.. I drink so much coffee at these events to stay awake, that I can't keep the camera steady even at 1/125th... Your venue events are too speedy for me... so much action packed into an evening would be pretty tough to for me to keep up with...

There are some places around here in PA I can back track to... my old hang out places... resort night clubs, restaurants... taverns... beer joints... there are dozens of these places in the Poconos with real good live (several times per week) entertainment... I just can't handle the drinking and the smoke anymore...

livewire-photography.com wrote in post #3129009
You gott love that shop lol

Dude, this is silly. How about a coffee some day? We're in the same town, fercryinoutloud!

Or a beer at the frog or down at Rail Way or Tailors or Slaks.

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shesgotthepic wrote in post #3129813
Dude, this is silly. How about a coffee some day? We're in the same town, fercryinoutloud!

Or a beer at the frog or down at Rail Way or Tailors or Slaks.

She

I just rememberd- All Saints Road- Thats my honerary base in chelternam. i couldnt remember the name of the road before.

i wont give out the number for security reasons- i dont want james going to try and hit on my lady friend.

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johnstoy wrote in post #3129081
Hand held shutter speeds of less than your heart rate... lets say, lower than approx. 1/60th, are risky... cause you might have at least one heart beat, if not two occurring while holding the camera steady...

That's exactly why I stopped doing speed before shooting concerts. Well, off to the gym...got to get my resting heart rate below 40.

....No seriously though, the 28-105 is probably a versatile walk around lens and may well be worth picking up at a decent price, but imho (not that it matters) every concert shooter should have a prime or two in their bag.

bacchanal wrote in post #3129910
That's exactly why I stopped doing speed before shooting concerts. Well, off to the gym...got to get my resting heart rate below 40.

....No seriously though, the 28-105 is probably a versatile walk around lens and may well be worth picking up at a decent price, but imho (not that it matters) every concert shooter should have a prime or two in their bag.

Yeah, I agree with you. A prime or two is what I eventually want. Got to start somewhere, though. With any luck, might pick up a prime as well.... in the not too distant future.

As for heart rate. Once scared the cr*p out of an ER ward when I woke up with a suspected apendicities and a morning pulse of 48. At the time, twice my age. Then again last summer (20 years later) at a health check at a gym directly after having done 1x10 of all the stuff that was to be in my workout program and my pulse was 50. I think I can do a 1/60. Unless I wake up with a pulse doing 108, as I did a few years ago. That scared the life out of me when I 4 days later was in an ambulance with a heart monitor and all.

Life in the fast lane.

Frank p wrote in post #3128786
i have the 28-105.
its a great lens.
excuse the picture its the only one at hand atm

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i know its not the fastest lens but its nicer than the kit lens
unless your going to be shooting in really low light.
Id say go for the 28-105 rather than the 50.

With a shutter of 1/40, i'd say this shot barely made it. It came out great, but it would be impossible to capture action shots in this setting - with ISO at 1600 already and the aperture as wide as possible. Those settings are probably at the maximum for getting possible shots if the artists are still. If you definitely want a concert lens, I would say 1.8 prime. I have a 50mm f/1.8 and it's a fantastic concert lens. I'm thinking about adding an 85mm f/1.8 as well to get in a little bit closer. The only thing a zoom would really do for me is let me get in close to the drummer.

for me, zooms allow me to get much wider. w/o a fisheye, on a crop body the widest and fastest prime i know of is either the uber-pricey canon 24L or the sigma 20...both are spendy. my 30 is the widest prime option in my bag, and that's not very wide. i do like being able to drop to 17 on occasion, esp on the fly.

Well, I got it. (no surprise there, right?) My buddy said it even had smoother focus action then his USM II that is a month old.

Should have given it a dress rehearsal tonight at the jazz festival but at the last minute was told that the photo passes that had been promised to both of us were suddenly denied. Buddy is a rigger at the gig. Sais a lot at how strict they were at this one.

Oh well, straight in to full live action tomorrow.

I'm tempted to pick up the 70-300 3.5-5.6 USM. Could be of good use at equestrian events. But that is a whole different forum all together.

/she

next buy- 70-200 2.8 IS USM. Blatently...
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p.s cheltenham drivers are really bad- someone took my wing mirror off whilst i was parked there last night.

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