Stadium lights take a good picture?

Dilemma made by Emily: How do you take a good picture in stadium lighting?

I have a Canon Rebel XSi and need to be able to take pictures in a stadium but with a really fast shutter speed since it will be at a track meet. How do I do this?

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Answer by Camera Guy

High ISO setting and have camera set on A and make sure you leave the aperture wide open at all times. You don’t have a fast lens (2.8 or faster) so you will have to put up with some blur.

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However, to take a good picture in stadium lighting would require faster lenses.. 50mm f/1.8 … 85mm f/1.8… 200mm f/2.8 … 300mm f/2.8 etc.. and I doubt you have access to them. I would also shoot at a ISO of at least 1000 if under statium lights. Color is shot anyhow with artificial lighting…

Answer by b0b

you need to determine – from how far back from the action you will be – what focal length you’ll need. Let’s say, to fill the frame, you decide on 180mm.

Then you go and – for quality – buy a matching (Canon) “L” series pro lens eg; 180mm f 2,8 (aperture).

So armed and at full aperture, you may be in the range of ISO 800 or less in stadium lighting, which would help quality, too. Of course, your focusing will have to be millimetre accurate in dim light…at full aperture on a ‘long’ lens you get nothing for nothing, the Laws of Physics are immutable.

The angles of view for different focal lengths are a set established figure so you can calculate your field of view in advance, given the range (distance) that you think you are shooting at.

There is a problem though; if say, you need a 500mm focal length at f4 or wider aperture (to keep the shutter speeds as high as possible) then you are talking $ $ $ $ $ and really you should use a monopod which many stadia will not allow unless you have a pro press pass….

Compromise is the name of the game here, but each compromise reduces quality. To save $ $ $ $ , consider for one evening’s project, you can hire pro lenses (with a whacking great returnable deposit) and thus do not have to invest a fortune just for one event. The most common pro’ hire equipment is Nikon, not Canon, there are very good reasons for that, think on, lad

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After our previous reviews on the Nikon D3100, several people messaged us asking whether this would be a better first DSLR than the Canon 550D. So, we try to…

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The Canon cameras I currently own.

All things considered, the G9 is probably the most utilitarian camera in the bunch (though obviously the ability to switch lenses on the XT is unmatched by any of the PowerShot models). But ounce for ounce, I think the easiest camera to work with to get the results I typically want from causal lomography — shooting from the hip, day-to-day — is the S80, which is why I just bought a second one after having sold my first a year ago. It’s the smallest, does about 80% of what the G9 does, has nearly all its settings and controls accessible by the right thumb. The big strike against the S80? Out of the five you see here, it’s the only one that doesn’t shoot RAW (boo to Canon!). But it’s probably the one I’m going to end up using the most again.

Note to Canon: when are you getting to get off your asses and give us an S90? >:/

Stadium lights take a good picture?