Originally posted by mnacker I take a lot of pictures in low light. They are action shots for my sons' sports teams (football at night, wrestling in a gym). Short of buying a 28mm lens, what can I do? The pictures come out without focus. I have tried all of the settings on the camera. I hate to say that my little point and shoot camera sometimes takes better pictures in low light/with action. What am I doing wrong? Should I be programming a setting?
First, there is absolutely no way a P&S shold do even 1/10 as well as the K200D in low light, so your first step should be understanding what you are differently between your P&S and K200D. Perhaps you are using flash with the P&S and not with the K200D? If so, then the solution is pretty obvious - start usng flash with the K200D as well. But posting pictures would help. you say the pictures are "without focus", but what you presumBly mean is that the focus is somewhere, just not where you intended. Shooting fast action in low light is difficult and takes skill with focus, whether using AF or MF. So you might also describe how you the photogrpaher chose to control focus.
Others have observed the K200D's high ISO abilities are not as good as more recent DSLR's, and that is certainly true. But the differences are often overstated. The difference in quality between K200D and the best DSLR are *minuscule* compared to the differences between the K200D and the best P&S. So if you aren't getting mich better results with your K200D than with your P&S, you need to start by posting pictures, with Exif intact, and describing how you were shooting (in particular, how you controlled focus), and then maybe we can see why you aren't getting the most out of your K200D. Because simply changing DSLR's and then makng the same mistakes won't help.