These where direct flashed too, as the bounce reduces light and lights up the ambience where as direct flash also catches highlights in the eyes.

excellent advice given here, I have recently taken a weekly job working in a nightclub exact same setting for your club.

These where all taken using manual mode and manual focus, lens set to 3 feet focus, I tape it up with a bit of masking tape to stop it from moving set aperture to f/8 and shutter to 1/25 or lower depending on lazer lighting. ISO is set to 800.

Camera and flash both set to second curtain sync.

Metz 48 af flash set again to manual and 1/32 or 1/16 setting, 1/32 for couples 1/16 for groups. I use a cheap £2 ebay diffuser on this and pull out the wide angle lens on the flash inside the diffuser.

I hardly do any post on these except a little cropping and noise reduction which I have set as to do on import in lightroom.

Lens is a tamron 17-50mm, I mostly use this at 17mm due to the lack of space in the club. Although its a 2.8 aperture this is irrelevant for this kind of photography.

Do not try to use auto focus, this will just delay your work and become frustrating.

Focus screen. Is sold so price reduced to £200

I've sold a few m40 2.8 lenses on eBay for around £90 mark

I am looking for one for a club photography job I have just taken on..,

Thanks Luka

Also which version is it HSM or screwdriver???

Any photos of the lens???

How much is postage to the uk??

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Depends what you are shooting though, if it's just portraits then there will be little difference, if however you need a fast af and fps then the 1d mk3 will beat the pants of a k-5.

But then I would expect that of a camera costing three times the cost...

Shot this at a recent wedding..