What kind of Lens for Nightclubs?

[Mr. Swindle]

I agree with garbz and ryan,

I used to do some nightclub and concert shooting, in all the places i shot (many) ranging from downtown gogo's to cocktail lounges and 3 level clubs, I never left the house with out the wide angle zoom.

I was using the 18-55 3.5-5.6 nikon on my D80, along with a sb800 and fong diffuser, put out some AMAZING photos. And that was with the 3.5, Ideally i was going to go with a 2.8 zoom 17-50, 17-55, 17-35 or a nice 20,24,28mm prime.

Be prepared to battle tight, restricted elbow room, and drunk people bumping into you and fog and crazy fluorescent or little/no available light.

 

[djacobox372]

Autofocus is a pain in dark areas like night clubs, so you might as well go for a manual focus 50mm f1.2.

 

[lamergod]

85 f1.2L or 1.4

It also depends how far are you from the stage,sometimes a fisheye works great too