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2ball

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Right now I am using the kit lens with the 5100. I am getting good pics inside a gym at 55mm, iso3200 1/250 with an F5.6. The only issue is grainy pics.

If I get a Nikon AF-s Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 Prime, will I be able to take pics at iso800, getting clean crisp pics?
 
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Geoffc

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If you shoot at f2.8 with a 50mm 1.8 your iso should become 800 in the same conditions. To see if you'll be happy, set the iso to 800 with the current lens and take some pics as a test. Not in the same place as you'll need more light. You should have your own answer then as acceptable is subjective.
 
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Alex66

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I should hope if nothing else you would get better iq from the 50mm, certainly all my Nikon primes are better than my DX zoom and ones that have passed. Apart from the 35mm DX lens they are all older AF lenses. 800 iso should be a fair bit less noisy over 3200, I only found I could get semi bearable results by converting to black and white. But for my taste digital mono is very poor compared to using even the lowest cost films.
 
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stmv

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the grainy will be issue of ISO and not Fstop, so,,,, the suggestion to use faster glass is to allow you to lower the ISO if you don't like the grian at ISO 800.
 
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eurotrash

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Ciuld also just reduce noise in post at the risk of losing some sharpness.. Noise ninja is awesome for that though, i always pump my iso into strange territory, knowing i can fix it later.

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2ball

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Thanks for the info and responses.
I am going to look at noise ninja.

is the only difference between d and g lenses is that the d lens you manually change the f stop and on g lenses you do it through the camera?
 
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Marcel

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2ball said:
is the only difference between d and g lenses is that the d lens you manually change the f stop and on g lenses you do it through the camera?
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No, the main difference is that the D lenses don't have their own focusing inside the lens where the G lenses do. Which means that you need a camera that has the focusing inside the body (D70-80-90-200-300-700-600-7000). You can still control the aperture from the sub-command wheel but you have to lock the aperture on the lens at it's minimum opening.

Hope this clears it up for you.
 
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Eye-level

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2ball said:
Right now I am using the kit lens with the 5100. I am getting good pics inside a gym at 55mm, iso3200 1/250 with an F5.6. The only issue is grainy pics.

If I get a Nikon AF-s Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 Prime, will I be able to take pics at iso800, getting clean crisp pics?
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Short answer...yes...

50 is not enough for the gym...not close enough...IMO but I don't shoot that kind of stuff...I'd use a 200 or something...well I would probably use the legendary 180... :)
 
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eurotrash

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You could likely get good sharp pictures at iso 500 or 640! Try the 85 1.8? 130? 200? 70-200 2.8?

Biggest variable here is the op's budget..

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