Quote Originally Posted by peety3
but do leave yourself flexibility to ITTR if you want a fast shutter speed.

You are so right, and I appreciate the reminder. For the first 10 months shooting DSLR photos I resisted bumping up the ISO - almost never shot above 200. Naturally I had to throw away tons of shots because of blur. Painful, but I kept doing it, thinking all I needed was a better shooting technique. I was so preoccupied with the dreaded noise I just couldn't bring myself to "ruin" a shot using a higher ISO.


Thankfully I learned (here) it wasn't the high ISO, it was the lack of light causing the excessive noise. Once I got past that I found ISO 800 and even 1600 weren't bad at all, they just need a proper exposure.