Originally posted by Alex00 Why not just use a cheap point and shoot camera to take your soft pic. I'm mean What's the points of having a high quality camera and lens if you want to use 1/4 handheld to make your shots. this doesn't make any sense to me and it's nothing to be proud off. Look at me I'm shooting at 1/4 by my photos are a little soft............ Beats the purpose.
I don't know of a point and shoot that can even do iso 800 and look decent. That means that with the point and shoot without flash in that situation, you would be shooting at 1/2 to 1 second exposures. Now that would look lousy!
Sure, shooting at iso 3200 would give you a little faster shutter speed, but it still would be on the slow side (read going from 1/4th second to 1/8th second) and you would still have motion blur from the people involved. Some photogs dislike flash a lot because of distraction, etc Jasvox made decisions about how he wanted his photos to look and is satisfied.