iso for concert photography?

Oriel

DotOrg,
What would be the lowest iso setting you'd recommend for concert photography?

Cheers,
S.

qwertz

Can you provide further details regarding your cameras/lenses?

Shiny

400 as a minimum.

Even with that speed you would need your arms resting
on something.

Also depends on the venue....ie the better the venue, better
lighting etc...

Where will you be taking the pictures from?

ie from the front row, press pass etc..?

Shrimp

It really depends entirely on the lighting! You haven't stated whether it's indoor/outdoor... night/day...

Rockiemalt

i usually use 1600 or 3200

can be grainy but you need it for the darkness!

Oriel

I'm talking about indoor concerts Shrimp. At the moment, I'm using a 3.1-9.2 70mm-370mm fixed lens camera (the FujiFilm S5500).
I would be talking about a press pass area. I'm hopefully soon going to be able to chance to get to a few more gigs, in the press pass area, but just using this camera, I feel a bit impotent, compared to the other photographers there. I haven't got a £1000+ camera, and I've only got a 400 iso, which it giving me enough camera shake at the best of times.

I'm probably going to get the Nikon D70 sometime in the new year, but until then, I'm going to try my best with the camera I have at the moment.

But where did the other concert-photograpers start out?
S.

Fajitas!

Use 800+ preferably, but if you have 400, best get either a good hold on your camera, or a monopod, I find mine dead handy for gigs.

Fajitas!

Use 800+ preferably, but if you have 400, best get either a good hold on your camera, or a monopod, I find mine dead handy for gigs.

Shrimp

Have you got a tripod?

DotOrg

you can't use a tripod in a photo pit, or a monopod in some pits depending on the security guys and their attitude

the camera you have probably isn't good enough for concert photography unless the venues have huge lighting systems.

i use everything fomr 100 iso to 3200 iso but generally I'm using 800 or 1600 though that's because i have lenses that have a really wide aperures of either 1.4 or 2.8

i started out using an old canon eos 1000fn using fuji 1600 print film
then a 300D
and now a 20D and 350D

Húrin

I like to use ISO 800 colour film. I like the strongly coloured blurring i get. They are like abstract photos.