Low light and MF

The inside of the EVF works superbly with manual focus even under appalling lighting conditions when the stage is kept near dark.. No disappointment here. It is usable with glasses(not the progressive type).
The piano player and drummer were taken with a Tamron 2,8/80-200 ISO 400and the punk performers with Leica R 1,4/50 ISO 800 and the singer ISO 1600
Are there more people out there taking pics under the same or worse conditions ? I would like to see some work published in this forum.

 

with IS there is no need to use a tripod. It is too cumbersome to shift around and the persons sitting next to you certainly would mind.
With slow shutter speeds you get lots of blurred pics because of subject movement, unless this is your intention it may look funny.
Shutter speeds for the four photos (pict 021-1/50; f 1,4 ISO 800; pict 071 - 1/160; f 2,8 ISO 400; pict 103 - 1/125; f 2,8 ISO 400; pict 120 - 1/13; f 1,4 ISO 1600).

In case you would like to create movement yourself to give an impression to viewers of what was going on,you could move the camera during a long exposure (I don't care about the compositional rules handed down to us) Here are two examples to illustrate what looks like a multiple exposure when the IS is not turned off (pict 281 - 1/2 sec.,f 22 ISO 400, camera moved horizontally; pict 288 - 1/2 sec., f 22 ISO 400, camera moved vertically) The E-P2 sensor wants to be tortured and still works properly.



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