Went to a Roy Orbison tribute concert the other night
One of the local clubs staged the above concert - we were joined by about 800 others and from the seating area I enjoyed both the music and shooting the following images ~ all hand held. The beauty of using the Panasonic superzoom soon became evident - my distance to the stage was about 20m ~ 25m and using the eyepiece all the time those behind me were not distracted by a large, bright LCD screen in front of them.
Typical EXIF was ....
Panny FZ-200; .. ISO-1600; .. aperture - F2,8; .. shutter - 1/20 to 1/200s [lighting varied constantly]; .. zoom @ 100mm to 624mm [film camera equiv]
As always, feedback welcome
Phil from the great land Downunder
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1) Setting the scene
2) Roy Orbison in person
3)
4) Johnny Cash in person
5) Backing vocals
6) Backing vocals & Base guitar
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No- not out of focus - but perhaps a tad soft as one might expect from the lens stretched out to 600mm using F2,8 @ 1/60sec x ISO-1600. Perhaps one of the dSLR people here might do better with the larger sensor cameras, ... but I doubt it
Thanks for the feedback
Phil
crop-1... (pixel peeping of the images)
crop-2
The first problem that I see is slow shutter speeds. I mean, 1/20s? Really? People are moving and you can't capture a sharp image of a moving subject at anything less than 1/160s, not to mention eliminating camera movement. I believe the rule is "nothing less than the inverse of the focal length", which for these should have been 1/600s, mitigated by any IS features (which I don't trust anyways).
And FWIW (for what it's worth) a DSLR is more than capable of capturing an image at 400mm (Nikon 200-500 on a D850, 1/320 @ f/5.6, ISO 6400, VR and monopod)
or 700mm (Nikon 200-500 with a 1.4 TC on a D850, 1/320 @ f8, ISO 6400, VR and monopod):
Admittedly, 1/320 is too slow, but I know how piano players work, and I was willing to accept blur in the hands.
Not sure why you thought a DSLR couldn't do better.
almost any challenge with my FF DSLRs and lenses.
Light is free… capturing it is not!
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