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I've been shooting a rather badly light gig, where the band were tricky to focus on.
Flash solved the problem a little, but of course it quickly kills any ambience even when used as just fill.
To give an idea, I was shooting at between ISO 6400 and ISO 12800 sometimes to get 1/00 to 1/200 sec exposures.
The band were moving quite a bit, (soul / Motown with all the dance moves...) and were mainly dark skinned so there wasn't much contrast to work with against.
Now, ignoring the inevitable motion blur risks, (I found I could get some great shots even at the lower shutter speeds if I timed it right), I did find my poor old 5D3 was struggling often to find and acquire focus. Even when it thought it had, it sometimes had hopelessly missed the mark.
(With the amount of movement f2.8 is as open as I'm going to shoot this stuff, and my lenses of choice were the Canon 24-70 Mk2 and 70-200 Mk2 anyway).
So my question goes to how much better a 5D Mk4 may have faired?
I hear that it has improved focus ability in low light and is snappier, but is it a big difference or just a small one - ie, would it have changed my shooting experience?
I do sometimes wonder how we managed when our ISO max was 1600 and we feared to go even that far...
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