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Interesting conversation with a customer today. She's a professional photographer. She's hired a Sigma 35mm Art lens from us, for some group portrait work. She's just taken delivery of it but is having problems, so she called us to ask for advice.
Me: So what kind of problems?
Her: All my pictures are coming out really much darker than I expected.
Me: OK. What camera are you using?
Her: A Nikon D850.
Me: Great, that's about the best camera there is. Let's look at how you're using it. How are you setting up the camera to take these shots?
Her: Well, I'm setting the aperture to f/5.6, because I want enough depth of field to get everybody's face in focus...
Me: OK, sounds good.
Her: ... and I've set the shutter speed to 1/250th, because there will be some babies in the groups, and I don't want their movements to be blurred ...
Me: OK, good idea.
Her ... and I've set the ISO to 2000, so I don't get too much noise in the images.
Me: OK, that makes sense. Are you using studio lights or flash?
Her: No.
Me: ......... No?
Her: No.
Me: I think I can see the problem here.
Me: So what kind of problems?
Her: All my pictures are coming out really much darker than I expected.
Me: OK. What camera are you using?
Her: A Nikon D850.
Me: Great, that's about the best camera there is. Let's look at how you're using it. How are you setting up the camera to take these shots?
Her: Well, I'm setting the aperture to f/5.6, because I want enough depth of field to get everybody's face in focus...
Me: OK, sounds good.
Her: ... and I've set the shutter speed to 1/250th, because there will be some babies in the groups, and I don't want their movements to be blurred ...
Me: OK, good idea.
Her ... and I've set the ISO to 2000, so I don't get too much noise in the images.
Me: OK, that makes sense. Are you using studio lights or flash?
Her: No.
Me: ......... No?
Her: No.
Me: I think I can see the problem here.