Choosing a camera

From Sunderland UK, 1 post

I am looking to get a digital SLR for home and gig photography.



I am stuck as some of the venues state no flash.



I am willing to pay aprox £800 for body and then lenses on top.



Any advice would be fantastic.

From Brighton, 2 posts

Hi, most digital cameras will do this if you take portable lights. You can use these lights as band lights and spin them to photograph. A pair of decent lights from lexmark on ebay are about £200. They also do hood defusers with the lights. Pete

From Essex, UK, 1 post

hey,

so am I right in understanding you want to take photos in gigs and things, but without being able to use a flash or any of your own lights etc.

At the moment I do this using my compact Casio EX-P700, I've had it for a while now but you can pick then up on eBay still. It comes with a remote control which is sometimes pretty handy too.

I put it into manual shutter mode, slow the shutter down to as slow as i can get it without any blur (normally hold the cam above my head!) and normally get some decent pics. Shutter normally in the range of 60/1-100/1.

I'm no expert, and dont really know what I'm doing, just know this works for me.

There is some noise on the slower speeds in the dark so I'm looking for a new cam now with better low light/slow shutter pics, I'm not after a SLR though as I need something pocketable. Have seen people thrown out of gigs before due to using SLRs.

Message me if you want me to send any pics samples over,
Alistair