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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 133505" data-attributes="member: 12827">When the lights get very low, as they often can at concerts, AF can get dodgy at best. You are usually better off focusing manually. Our eyes are a lot more sensitive in lower light levels than any AF mechanism. Below are a few shots I took at a recent show here in town. They were all shot on a D700 with a 300mm f/2.8 lens ED-IF (manual focus) Nikkor. In many cases the light levels would have been too low to accurately measure autofocus, as evidenced by the bouncing around of the focus confirmation dot in the viewfinder when I knew the scene was in sharp focus. And all of these were taken at only ISO 800 so in most cases there is no need to go to very high ISO's to get the right shot. These were shot at around 1/60 @ f/4 or f/5.6 with the rig on a monopod<img src="http://gallery.nikonites.com/gallery/files/1/2/8/2/7/khh_0302.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://gallery.nikonites.com/gallery/files/1/2/8/2/7/khh_0294.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://gallery.nikonites.com/gallery/files/1/2/8/2/7/khh_0261.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 133505, member: 12827"] When the lights get very low, as they often can at concerts, AF can get dodgy at best. You are usually better off focusing [I]manually[/I]. Our eyes are a lot more sensitive in lower light levels than any AF mechanism. Below are a few shots I took at a recent show here in town. They were all shot on a D700 with a 300mm f/2.8 lens ED-IF (manual focus) Nikkor. In many cases the light levels would have been too low to accurately measure autofocus, as evidenced by the bouncing around of the focus confirmation dot in the viewfinder when I knew the scene was in sharp focus. And all of these were taken at only ISO 800 so in most cases there is no need to go to very high ISO's to get the right shot. These were shot at around 1/60 @ f/4 or f/5.6 with the rig on a monopod [IMG]http://gallery.nikonites.com/gallery/files/1/2/8/2/7/khh_0302.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://gallery.nikonites.com/gallery/files/1/2/8/2/7/khh_0294.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://gallery.nikonites.com/gallery/files/1/2/8/2/7/khh_0261.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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