You could try shooting manual focus, its usually too dark for autofocus at gigs, and lights changing means light metering is bad.

In my opinion, even with SR, 1/15 is RIDICULOUSLY slow. Bump up your ISO, and noise reduce it later on the computer - 800 or 1600. Id say aim at 1/80 or 1/100 shutterspeed, but if you must, around 1/40 to 1/60.

Infact, if you complain about not having sharp images then I really dont se why you were shooting 1/10. Even if the shot is underexposed, if you shoot RAW its generally rescuable in Photoshop. If you think about it, for someone standing still, and a 50mm lens you would need to use 1/40. Gig photography, you are likely to be moving, as are the artists - So you would probably want to use more towards 1/100, and with SR that takes it back to around 1/60 I'd say. Now, if you want to use the lens at its full extend, then you should expect to be using shutter speeds of around 1/125 to get those pin sharp images that you want.

Id pay for software if I made money off of it for a living.
Simple as that



..Or if it was cheap enough that I might as well buy.