T2i Exposure at high ISO

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grantw

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I'm shooting a friends wedding with my T2i. The lighting in the church is pretty bad and the wedding is at night. I didn't want to have to rent a lens for it so the ones I do have just go down to 4/5.6. The exposure is just about right at 6400ISO but grainy as hell. Is it better to just shoot at 6400 or shoot at 3200 then adjust exposure in post?
 
I wouldnt shoot at 6400, even 3200 is pushing it for something as important as a wedding. I recommend renting a lens or buying at least 50mm f/1.8 for this. The shutter speed can go all the way down to 100 if your shooting 60p, but for 1080 you could go to 80 or maybe lower (without strobing).
 
shoot 24p and go down to 60 shutter. yah..rent a faster lens. I'd recommend renting a zoom since its a wedding with a constant apperature of 2.8.
 
Whats wrong with shooting at 24p and shutter speed at 50. This is close to 180' shutter angle? But as the above poster suggested. Buy the 50mm 1.8. it's plenty fast enough, and will be about the same as renting a lens for a weekend.
 
If he's at ISO6400 at F4, he'd be at ISO1600 at F2. F1.4 would bring him down to ISO800, which is the MAXIMUM I'd shoot for something this important, and I'd prefer to be at 200.

Honestly, shoot some test footage this weekend in the church at ISO 6400 and ISO 1600, and show it to your friend without saying anything. Just ask his opinion of it while he looks at it on his own TV. If he asks why it's so grainy, tell him he's GOT to get some light in there or it will all look like that. You've got one of the best low-light cameras around (hobbled by slow glass) but you can't shoot well in NO light.

And for goodness sakes do NOT go to a 1/60 shutter. That's silly and counter productive.
 
for some reason i thought he was shooting under floro lights when the Op said bad lighting (my bad). which was the 1/60 recommendation. If no then yeh 50 is the way to go. ?(24p) If it is floro though use 60 to avoid flicker.
 
I know its going to sound snippy, but some of you guys are setting the bar way to high for wedding video. I've done a few over they years, but I don't do it professionally. In my market people just aren't willing to pay for a quality job. They'll pay the photographer, because that is what they'll cherish for the long term, If they consider video at all it is below the dejay on the budget priorty list. I think most people expect the video to be crap, and if you are even remotely better than that they are happy. I wouldn't even consider shooting HD unless I could command more than the high end stills guys, the extra post hassles just aren't worth it.

That's just me your experiences may be different. Those of you that shoot all the time, do you feel you are getting enough to justify your investment in cameras and editing time? Does it not burn you that they'll pay the stills guy 2-3k for the day when his kit probably isn't even worth that much and his post work is dumping cards to CD. Meanwhile, your slugging 2 3chip cameras and will have a week for a decent edit, for probably less than half of that.
 
well i dont shoot weddings. i did one for a friend on my dvx and that was it. Hated it. However the fact that other people's wedding videos look like crap doesnt mean mine should. And it was that fact that led me to do it for him as a gift cuz i didnt want some half assed videographer giving him crap for his special occasion. I actually like to watch my footage...and if i cant then it wasnt worth my time. Thats just me...so i strive to do the best i can under the circumstances. Shooting at 6400 is unacceptable plain and simple. So get more light or a fast lens or watever. Take pride in your work. If u dont want to get payed the crap $ for weddings then dont do it. If ur gonna do it then do it well.
 
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