Ray Sachs
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- Location
- Not too far from Philly
- Name
- you should be able to figure it out...
Yeah, that really seems to be my magic number as well. I could see for shooting sports or something with a loooong lens you could want something notably faster. But for street and the other stuff I shoot, 1/500 catches almost everything. At 1/400 I do pretty well, but I definitely get more misses than I do at 1/500. When the light gets low enough that I have to shoot down around 1/150 or something, even at 6400, I do it and try to steady myself as well as I can so I'm only dealing with my subject's motion and not my own. And I get plenty of keepers. But I get SOOOOO many more misses at those slower shutter speeds that I only use them when absolutely necessary. This is basically where higher ISO capability is most useful to me - not IQ as much as extending the possibilities for getting the shot.Yeah, that's a neat trick albeit a very roundabout way of doing it. Shame that it doesn't go to my magic number of 1/500 but it's close.
-Ray