> Friday just gone, I had an immediate use for a DSLR, to take photos of my > youngest in a school 'play' (she's 5 next week, so it was only a small > part), but I used the MX and Chinon flash for two reasons; firstly I can use > the MX to provide good results without thinking and I'd not used the *ist D > before and two; - and I freely admit this is a bit sad - is I am so stunned > to have something new I wanted to view it in the box for a bit.
This is an ideal setting for the *ist D, especially if you can get on the stage before the performance. Take a white sheet of paper (the whiter the better) on the stage and manually set the white balance for that lighting. Then, when you return to the audience, set the ISO to whatever will give you a decent shutter speed for the conditions. 1600 and 3200 may be noisy, but still a decent image. The noise can be cleaned up with some 3rd party programs if it's really objectionable, but I find it no worse than film grain. Bill
