cameras, concert photography

[erilyn]

I'm considering getting a new camera for my 30th (which is approaching far too rapidly). Does anyone have recs/anti-recs for a compact or ultra-compact? What do you have, how have you found it? I currently have a three year old Canon A85.

I've been going through a few sites (like Digital Photography Review - very useful for feature search and side-by-side comparisons) but am feeling overwhelmed by choices and options. Good video is essential (especially for concerts *g*).

Speaking of concerts - my photos are often very hit and miss (with greater emphasis towards miss). If you take photos at concerts, what settings do yo tend to use? Fully auto, a specific mode, or do you manually adjust aperture and ISO speed etc?

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Thanks to very useful info from babygotbass (eg the sold out message is an error, and check your order history when it times out during processing), I have conquered the FBR store and ordered the deluxe edition of Pretty. Odd. \o/

I really need to make a proper To Do list for February. I don't have uni for the next 3 1/2 weeks, and I'll be working a bit but not full-time (afaik), so it is Time To Get Shit Done.

Also, the mystery of Pete and Patrick's apparent trip to Europe and Russia is solved! I hope they go to Paris a lot "".

Comments

[misha-bsb.livejournal.com]

Crashing the thread again to let you know someone posted on LiveDaily that BSB will be on Australia TV. Not sure if it's Wednesday AM or Thursday AM

BSB will be on the Today Show here in Aussie tomorrow morning channel 9.

On from 6.00am till 9.00am

...

http://today.ninemsn.com.au/

If you go down on that page you may see where they say about BSB on there.

[misha-bsb.livejournal.com]

NVM, it just aired

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

I saw it, thanks, someone posted about it to the Aussie list last night. It was incredibly blah, Richard Wilkins isn't a great interviewer, and there was nothing of note in it. I don't think Howie said one word during it, heh.

[misha-bsb.livejournal.com]

Could you ask your friends on the list to send an email to this station?

http://www.mix1065.com.au/misc/unfiledarticles.asp?articleid=7390

Apparently they interviewed AJ last Friday. They have some podcasts on their site, so maybe they will post the interview if there's demand. I tried to email them but their site filters out some non-Australian email sites.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

I'll pass it on!