Goodbye Fairbanks play a live rock concert at Schüür Lucerne |
To figure out what kind of glass and clicky thingy to get, I borrowed my friend Bruce's D700 with the 17-35mm f/2.8. I'd already figured out on said trip to the east that Bruce likes his settings a bit different - he's the kind of person that sets the autofocus to the A/F button and gets the white balance right when he shoots (so it's set to JPG). I was ready for that.
Fuzzy Index performing at Schüür Lucerne |
But I must say, it does take some getting used to when you got a camera in your hands that you haven't played much with. Compared to the D700, my old Canon 20D is far inferior, but it felt better in my hands 'cause I'm used to it.
Goodbye Fairbanks during their concert in Lucerne, Switzerland |
The lens gives you awesomely distorted wide-angle (as you'd expect at 17mm), but that was almost too wide for Schüür's stage. I'm tempted to say I wanna buy a 2nd D3 with the 35-70mm f/2.8, but I can hear my bank account screaming just thinking of it. Anyone got 8000 Swiss to spare?
Goodbye Fairbanks playing a rock concert |
PS: The bands were awesome!!!
2 comments:
Hey Katrin! So you're moving from Canon to Nikon? What's that all about, can you tell me? I'm about to buy my first DSLR and as big Canon fan I was going for that, but do you think Nikon is better now? Should I consider comparing the one canon I was gonna buy with a similar level Nikon? And which do you think is best for live photography (i'm going for that too)?
Helen Luna,
yes, I'm moving to Nikon. Reasons: Canon's out-of-focus is s.l.o.w. and doesn't deal well with low light situations (it basically just does the camera equivalent of whining and crying "i can't do that, it's too hard...". (Before the 5D mark II) Canon kept building more and more mpx on the same size sensor - hello noise! I need my background to be *black*, not rainbowish.
Nikon's autofocus rocks, even if there's hardly a ray of light anywhere near. Its ISO goes to infinity and beyond, no noise. NONE.
IMO, Nikon is the way to go if you wanna shoot live.
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