Quote Originally Posted by Daniel Browning


Probably not. It depends on the venue lighting and shutter speed needed to stop action. The venues that I frequent are quite dim, and they require ISO 12,800 for f/4 @ 1/500. An f/1.8 lens brings me down to a much nicer ISO 2500 for 1/500.


Do you (or does anybody else) manage to successfully use the f/1.8 primes wide-open for non-staged shots of relatively fast-moving subjects like small children? I'm having great difficulty handling the thin DoF, heck, even for static subjects I still need to practice some...


Ciao, Colin