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Did my first low light event shoot last night with the D750 and have to say i was really disappointed with it's low light focus performance. I'd even go as far to say my D7200 does a better job in low light.
Any advice on best low light AF settings ?
The event was in a marquee with fairy lights and candles. I tried combinations of AFC, AFS with 5point, AUTO. Also with flash (sb800) and without.
Lenses were both Tamrons - 70-200 f2.8 / 24-70 f2.8
I ended up moving away from focusing on faces and trying white collars to get a decent contrast point to allow the camera to find focus, sadly missed a lot of photos while it hunted around. The AF-assist light helped from the flash but i believe this is only available in 'Auto' which normally chooses focus points i dont want. I like to use single point focus on eyes when possible and af-c
Hope this can be improved through settings or is the FF body more favourable to Nikon's own lenses ?
tia
Mike
I'd think it must be lens related. How little light are we talking, give us an idea of general settings. The only 2.8 lens I have used on my 750 is the Nikon 24-70 and that doesn't struggle at all, ever, in the darkest situations.