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I used a simple camera, and a fast lens to make the most of the natural light.
The advantage to an otherwise fast lens is more than the ability to shoot in low light.
With a relatively fast lens, a motorised film winder and, in particular, its innovative autofocus system, it was a useful backup to bulky single-lens reflex cameras.Now autofocus is universal and 35mm film has been replaced by digital imaging sensors and memory cards.
With a fast lens and high ISO range, this could be the carry-around compact you've been looking for.
It is quite light and feels on par with similar point and shoots except for the fast lens and focus features.
And the manual focus, one of the fun things to have in a "professional" camera, especially one with such a great, fast lens and HD video, is useless.
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And fast lenses for shooting in dim light are usually found only on single-lens reflex cameras.
That quest begins here, with Godard's "return" — at least, his return to the French film industry and his confrontation with its new generation of stars (Isabelle Huppert, Nathalie Baye, and Jacques Dutronc) — and his self-conscious struggle, aided by new equipment (fast film, fast lenses), toward a new cinematic grammar.
These are great for traveling (no need to change lenses), but because of the large amount of glass elements that allow the lens to go all the way from ~20mm to ~100mm (a typical range), they generally aren't very fast lenses, so low light pictures are out unless you want to push the ISO up.
I packed a camera bag full of my Nikon DSLRs and fast lenses, which I dutifully lugged on six flights into, across and out of "The Land of Golden Pagodas", and only dug them out of their cocoon twice in more than two weeks.
Very wide, and/or very fast, lenses cost more because they need very complex optics; lenses of sensible speed in normal focal lengths don't require complex optics and, consequently, are much cheaper.
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