Pushing the most out of my gear and myself
Kingsday, a fun day, lots of music, and enough to do
While it is already more than a week ago, and we already have the next festival today, I want to show you some photos I took on Kingsday.
| ISO | Shutterspeed |
|---|---|
| 1000 | 1/125 S |
I wanted to feel the festival mood, but since most of it isn't really my music, I decided to take my camera with me, and see if I could practice and possible get some nice pictures. That way I knew I would entertain myself.
| ISO | Shutterspeed |
|---|---|
| 2500 | 1/160 S |
But under the bands there was a positive outlier. The band Knars. I really enjoyed their music and they had a great vibe on the stage.
| ISO | Shutterspeed |
|---|---|
| 2500 | 1/160 S |
My gear
| Camera | Canon EOS M50 |
|---|---|
| Lens | Pallas auto 1:3.5 F 200mm |
| Speedbooster | Viltrox 0.72x |
| Editor | Rawtherapee 5.9 |
| ISO | Shutterspeed |
|---|---|
| 2500 | 1/160 S |
As you can see, my setup is quite budget. Which didn´t make the job easier. I also have a 55-250mm F4.5-6.3 EF-S lens with automatic zoom. But I choose to use the old manual focus M42 lens, because the M50 doesn´t perform that well in low light, so getting more light into the camera had priority over auto focus. Also I wanted a reasonable zoom level because I didn´t know how busy it would be and how close I could get. I shot all photos with F3.5 or F4.
| ISO | Shutterspeed |
|---|---|
| 1600 | 1/125 S |
This of course gave other problems. Manual focus isn´t easy in the dark and the lens is good if you are spot on. But if you are a bit off, you get chromatic aberration. Needless to say. I lost a lot of pictures because they were not sharp. And some of those I selected, I still rather would have seen sharper. But they are good enough for online in my opinion. So rather this than throwing everything away because I find them too noisy.
| ISO | Shutterspeed |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 1/125 S |
Also it is good practice. And can only get better with better gear. But I enjoyed doing it. And I am quite happy with the photos that succeeded.
| ISO | Shutterspeed |
|---|---|
| 1250 | 1/125 S |
And I already found it out a bit earlier, but don´t let "I don't have the gear for it" stop you. Of course for some things this is true. But while with better gear I would have more photos, I still got a few great pictures from it. So it will mainly reduce the amount of succesfull pictures. But it is great practice and it will get me in a better position later on.
| ISO | Shutterspeed |
|---|---|
| 1600 | 1/200 S |
So I hope that you agree with me and also enjoyed these pictures. Also if you have tips for low light, those are always welcome
Below are only photos, no more text
| ISO | Shutterspeed |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 1/125 S |
| ISO | Shutterspeed |
|---|---|
| 800 | 1/125 S |
| ISO | Shutterspeed |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 1/160 S |
| ISO | Shutterspeed |
|---|---|
| 1000 | 1/125 S |
| ISO | Shutterspeed |
|---|---|
| 1250 | 1/125 S |
@stresskiller this is right up your alley gear wise,
Nice dat het bevrijdingsfeesten starte met dit blog, nice
Ja zeker, schreef dit stukje tijdens de regenbui op 5 mei.
Vind altijd wel mooie periode ook , weer begin van wat meer festival en evenemten die buiten zijn. En vaak redelijk goed weer
Yay! 🤗
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nice old lens :) and still decent shutter times nice low noise ISO not bad at all , well done
Thank you.
I now have 4 old lenses. They are fun to play with, and soo much cheaper some different primes with nice apertures.
And yes, I was quite happy, benefit of a bigger event like this is that the stage was well lit, which makes it a lot better, still was happily supriced that many were around 1000 ISO, didn´t expect that.
I added some noise reduction in post, but yeah the noise levels were perfectly workable.
i love old glass :) Rokkor , Helios, Jupiter they also have nice bokeh 😁
Yes, old glass is great. However, for now I'm not that concerned about how the bokeh is looking. More to increase my range of prime lenses for an affordable price. I have the cheap canon 50mm 1.8. Which is great if autofocus is handy. But I found a SMC pentax-m 1.7 50mm for cheap in thriftshop.
Since then, I mainly shoot with that lens.
And I certainly want to get a Helios at one time
i have not one e-mount lens with autofocus , i do have a-mount lenses with auto focus and the Sony LA-EA4 adapter so that i can use AF on some old a-mount lenses .