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Action shots in dark gym I have Nikon-N75 with 70-300 zoom- F4 --I used 1600 speed film on the sports setting.......great color blurred images unless practially standing still. When I set A and S myself...got action, dark and very grainy. When I used flash (not suppose to) great light but shutter only went to 90........help......what else can I do.....read about using 400-800 speed film....yes or no?? Not a major $$ job but want good pictures to sell myself for future customers.
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John A. Lind |
Pamela, Going down in film speed from ISO 1600 to a slower ISO 400 or 800 film will only make the situation worse, not better. The required shutter speed will only increase to compensate for the slower film (without flash; with flash it will demand twice the light from it). Are all the lights on in this gym? The situation as you depicted it is horridly dark for even a middle school gymnasium. With ISO 1600 film in the average hockey or basketball arena, or bowling alley you should be at about 1/125th second (without flash). If you're not allowed to use a flash, and cannot get more lighting, you're pretty much stuck. About the the only thing left is a very fast long lens (180mm - 250mm f/2.8 or f/2), which is extremely expensive (several thousand $ new). You've done just about all you can do otherwise . . . unless you can get the gym lights cranked up somehow. -- John
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