Powershot A95 Concert photo help...

[Matt8789]

Hey guys, i just bought a Canon Powershot A95 and am going to a concert soon and was wondering what setting would be the best for some good looking pictures. Its in a small venu, like a bar, low ceiling and will be dark except for the stage with the lights and whatnot. The stage is small so the players will be close together too. Any suggestions? Thanks!

[forevertechie]

I guess, the Scene mode with "Indoor" option would be good ! Ofcourse, you can still override the exposure and aperture using the manual controls !

[EAP]

Try Kids & Pets. This is meant for faster action type shots and may also work well in low light. Be sure to change the ISO setting to 400.

[PhilR.]

Hey guys, i just bought a Canon Powershot A95 and am going to a concert soon and was wondering what setting would be the best for some good looking pictures. Its in a small venu, like a bar, low ceiling and will be dark except for the stage with the lights and whatnot. The stage is small so the players will be close together too. Any suggestions? Thanks!

If you can use flash, just shoot in auto mode, after increasing ISO as high as it will go. If you cannot use flash, then shoot in aperture priority mode and choose the widest aperture you can get. This will force the camera to use the highest shutter speed possible.

Keep in mind however that shooting ambient light that low will most likely cause any camera to choose shutter speeds too low to handhold, and would therefore be too low to stop any subject movement.

The "kids/pets" mode will not be the best choice as that mode should bias the exposure to higher shutter speeds, which you won't get anyway. Kids and pets are not typically found in a club setting.

If your subjects are very brightly lit, then you might get high enough shutter speeds to freeze movement. If this is the case, select whatever lightmeter mode that will give you the smallest spot to meter, and put that spot on the subjects. There might be a "spotmeter" mode, so check your instruction book. This small spot meter mode will force the camera to just consider the brightly-lit subjects when calculating exposure, instead of the subjects and the dimly-lit surroundings....

PhilR.

[EAP]

There is a "spot meter" mode, see pg. 83 of the manual for info, Matt.

Do fleas in a club qualify as pets? :p

[Geoff Chandler]

You might be barred from the use of flash! - If so then our age old technique of upping the ASA and putting it into aperture priority will serve you well - set the aperture to the widest (lowest number) and leave it there - then it will select the fastest shutter speed for the available light - also if it is indoors you will benefit from using a different white balance - if you can use the manual white that will be the best - itherwise use the nearest one for the lighting they have (Fluorescent or tungsten). It's a great camera so I expect you'll get good results.
Geoff