Reply #14: I use a Canon 400D (Xsomething in US) [View All]

It does not have the newest image processor, like the 500D - and the iso noise was pretty bad on a lot of the shots, especially in the darker ares. The one above had handled it pretty well though. Don't know how the D70 stacks up against the 400D in that area - but I would not expect to be worse.

Applying some noise reduction and scaling down in postprodiction gets rid of most of it.

I am considering getting the new 500D or the 50D for ISO noise reasons though(and for a few others, but thats one of the bigger ones). Just to get the extra room to play with.

Haven't really tested my handholding limits on the lens - I could probably go slower than I did here. Pretty sure I could go to 1/50-1/80 with decent results.

But the main problem here was not my shaking - but people moving around. And they still haven't quite invented the technology that will literally freeze the subject when you hit the trigger.
Would be nice though. :)

Even on a couple of shots at 1/160 I could see the microphone fx. being razorsharp - while the singers movement had blurred him a little. But by far the most at that speed was sharp as could be.