Anita Taylor |
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Taking pictures at a night show
I just recently bought a new Minolta MAxxum 5. I have been using a Minolta X-370. I am taking photos of monster trucks at a night show in a lighted outside arena. I am using 1600 speed film and a 70-300mm lens. I know the settings for the newer cameras are different. What would be the best?
January 24, 2004
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Steve McCroskey |
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I too use a Minolta Maxxum 5 as camera of choice.
At a recent air show I took photos of jets flying high speed training exercises with 800 speed film & both the 28-105mm lense and 70-300mm lense.
One word of caution though, if you want to use the 70-300mm lense use a tripod!! It is virtually impossible to handhold that lense without having camera shake!
The 800 speed film should handle most anything - I use it for sports activities,landscapes,wildlife etc. Although I keep 200 & 400 on hand if I want to use it.
I never have tried the 1600.
Try experimenting with 800 and have the lab push it to 1600 and see what happens.
Experiment with something that will not be important fo a test run.
April 28, 2004
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Peter K. Burian |
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Steve: Set the Program mode and let the camera take care of the exposure. Using the Honeycomb Metering pattern. To be certain to prevent any underexposure (to assure finer grain) set a +0.5 exposure compensation factor. The Program will automatically set a fast shutter speed. If it's very dark, the shutter speeds may be too long for sharp images ... that happens in such photography. Cheers! Peter Burian
April 28, 2004
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Anita Taylor |
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Thank you both for your help! I really appreciate it. I have used 800 speed film before and it was with an older camera. The results were actually pretty good. I did use the 70-300mm but I couldn't take my tripod in with me. The pictures still turned out great, except for the ones where I zoomed in. NExt time, Peter, I will try your suggestion, too. Thanks, again!
May 03, 2004
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