I posted this in a seperate thread, but haven't had much of a response, do thought i'd try my luck here..
I suppose it's not necessarily a Sony lens question, but here goes anyway. I've been trying to get some decent pictures of a couple of young kittens a friend of mine has adopted, and I'm finding it pretty difficult. Both times my opportunity has been restricted to evenings, with only the top light in the living room switched on. I've got a Sony A200 with the kit lens and a Minolta 35-105 (the better, older one).
The problem I've found is that the A200 wants to bring up the flash a lot of the time, even though it's not particularly dark, although I understand what doesn't appear too dark, may be dark for a camera/lens. The other issue is that when I try to zoom in on the kittens, the camera will refuse to either auto-focus or take a shot in Manual mode, so a lot of the time the pictures are relatively wide angle. I managed to get some 'close' up shots with the Macro mode on the 35-105, even though it requires a few feet distance from the subject, and sometimes on board flash, the colours are too harsh and bright. Switching flash off, results in exposure time of about half a second, resulting in blur if handheld (although somewhat fixed by balancing on knee etc).
So what I am doing wrong? Or are my lenses not capable of focusing in indoor light?
I've only picked up my Sony A200 a few weeks back, and that was probably my first time in dealing with low light situation, so I could be doing a lot wrong, but thought I'd check for some advice here anyway.
Thoughts very much appreciated - thanks.
I know you had delusions of going to the dark side with possibly a D90?
