elmoandzoey
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 8, 2013
HI all,
I haven't been around for awhile but thought I'd check in and ask the experts My last trip to WDW I had an old Canon Rebel (my 40D broke right before the trip) and 50mm 1.8 with me. It did ok on rides like Haunted Mansion, POTC and Spaceship Earth but ISO 1600 yielded a lot of noise on the Rebel and 50mm on a crop was a really tight shot. I was a bit diappointed I could only ever fit two ghosts in a shot in Haunted Mansion and never all 3 hitchhikers. Everything else turned out pretty awesome though.
I am now planing a trip to Disneyland and am really struggling to decide what I want to take. My 40D is repaired and ready. ISO 1600 does a lot better job here than on the Rebel when it comes to noise. I have never used the high ISO 3200 setting it has, but I assume I won't be using it due to the noise level. Looking back at my pictures, I think I can also use my 17-55 2.8 on a few rides where I would use the 1.8 before to get a better zoom range. However, what I am really struggling with now is - do I want to replace the 50mm 1.8 with something else for the really dark rides and if so, with what? Would a 50mm 1.4 really make that much of a difference because really, it's just one stop. I also looked at the 18-35mm 1.8 from Sigma because it does give a wider zoom range at the same aperture but I've read and heard that it's quite soft wide open.
So really, my question would be - has anyone used both a 50mm 1.8 and something with either a wider zoom range or a larger aperture (or both) and can share their experiences?
I haven't been around for awhile but thought I'd check in and ask the experts My last trip to WDW I had an old Canon Rebel (my 40D broke right before the trip) and 50mm 1.8 with me. It did ok on rides like Haunted Mansion, POTC and Spaceship Earth but ISO 1600 yielded a lot of noise on the Rebel and 50mm on a crop was a really tight shot. I was a bit diappointed I could only ever fit two ghosts in a shot in Haunted Mansion and never all 3 hitchhikers. Everything else turned out pretty awesome though.
I am now planing a trip to Disneyland and am really struggling to decide what I want to take. My 40D is repaired and ready. ISO 1600 does a lot better job here than on the Rebel when it comes to noise. I have never used the high ISO 3200 setting it has, but I assume I won't be using it due to the noise level. Looking back at my pictures, I think I can also use my 17-55 2.8 on a few rides where I would use the 1.8 before to get a better zoom range. However, what I am really struggling with now is - do I want to replace the 50mm 1.8 with something else for the really dark rides and if so, with what? Would a 50mm 1.4 really make that much of a difference because really, it's just one stop. I also looked at the 18-35mm 1.8 from Sigma because it does give a wider zoom range at the same aperture but I've read and heard that it's quite soft wide open.
So really, my question would be - has anyone used both a 50mm 1.8 and something with either a wider zoom range or a larger aperture (or both) and can share their experiences?