jose_zakany

The 50mm 1.4 is a great lens for concerts, it is a little tight. The great lens for this work up

close is th 24mm 1.4. the 70 - 200 2.8 is great if you have it on a monopod.

In this concert I used the 50 1.4 a lot.

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I shoot the 30D and have a rebel xt for backup. It is hard to beat the 30D's speed and pro

level features. I think that the new rebel comes close in many regards but thee 30D will be a

far better choice if you will use the camera a lot. The ergonomics are much better than the

rebel. The camera is much better built too. Image is good from both cameras.

Jose

If you are shooting Raw then in effect the noise reduction would be off. However, I can

recomend you try the software Light Room from Adobe. This software is free for now for

testing. In the developing section of the program you will find a slider that is called

"Smooth" and "DeNoise".

I have been shooting a lot in low light. I shoot everything in RAW with my 30D. The

smoothing"

is key to getting the images to look like the JPEG low noise character. RAW does have

some great advantages when you work with images that make it better that JPEG.

For example I have included a sample image from a recent shoot. The photo was indoors.

All I had was my on camera 580EX. I took the shot RAW by bouncing the light off the far

wall to the left. The wall was not white so it gave a color cast. The camera was as ISO 800.

I used a 50mm 1.4 lens at f 2.0.

If you make this shot with a JPEG then the image will be corrected for noise in camera.

However, to get the correct color balace it is much better to shot Raw and remove the

noice with Smooth and color balace in Light Room. The shot will not look as red as the

JPEG would. If you color corecta JPEG you will loose speed since you have to open the

image and color corect with levels or curves.

Hope this helps,

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