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Man-Fai Wong · 02-21-2007, 06:25 PM

What Scott said.

Also, if you shoot at the wider end of the S3's lens, the max aperture will be larger allowing more light to be captured and thus yielding higher shutter speeds (all else being equal). I suspect there's at least a 1.3-stop difference in max aperture between full wide and full tele on the S3 (like many other such digicams).

Also, aside from the issue of camera shake, there's also the matter of motion blur from the potentially moving subjects themselves since you're shooting a school play. I suspect if you're shooting at anything less than 1/60 sec shutter speed, you will have lots of shots w/ some amounts of motion blur apart from any potential camera shake. 1/60 sec is ok when the subjects are relatively still. If they're moving about, you'll need much faster shutter speeds to "freeze/stop the action".

_Man_

02-21-2007, 06:25 PM	#3 of 19
Man-Fai Wong Member Location: New York City Join Date: Aug 2001 Local Time: 11:21 PM Local Date: 10-11-2008 Posts: 2,487	Re: S3 IS help What Scott said. Also, if you shoot at the wider end of the S3's lens, the max aperture will be larger allowing more light to be captured and thus yielding higher shutter speeds (all else being equal). I suspect there's at least a 1.3-stop difference in max aperture between full wide and full tele on the S3 (like many other such digicams). Also, aside from the issue of camera shake, there's also the matter of motion blur from the potentially moving subjects themselves since you're shooting a school play. I suspect if you're shooting at anything less than 1/60 sec shutter speed, you will have lots of shots w/ some amounts of motion blur apart from any potential camera shake. 1/60 sec is ok when the subjects are relatively still. If they're moving about, you'll need much faster shutter speeds to "freeze/stop the action". _Man_ Just another amateur learning to paint w/ "the light of the world".