The most important part is the lens. At night it is a little more difficult, but get a lens that has a constant f2.8 minimum fstop.
My D100 as an ISO equiv of 3200, and my D2x will go to 6400 I think. I usually don't go over 800, and in general I won't go over 400 when I have my flash. Also, spend the money for an external flash. I've never seen a built in flash on an SLR that was worth a damn. Of course I'll take a couple thousand pictures a day. When in DC last I took a couple hundred pictures one night. Hopefully I'll be in DC in July for a conference. I hope to take a few more then. Of course when I do night shots, I suck it up and take tripod if I'm doing scenery. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Holy crap, I'm not Ansel over here. I think the highest ISO is 400 > and it's the lens the pushes out when I turn on the camera. > > The problem is this - let's say I'm in an airplane hangar and want to > snap the aircraft. Through the LCD things look great, but when I take > the picture it comes out all dark and weird with the flash > illuminating 5% of the plane. > > So I turn off the flash. now the pic comes out like it looks in the > LCD except all blurry because of slight movement when I pushed the > button. > > The only way to get low light shots (or night shot) that I've found is > to put the camera on a rock or something and set the timer. Of course > now the framing of the picture is off and I'm not going to carry the > tripod around. > > Getting a nice city night shot w/o a tripod is a bitch. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:206032 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
