Ikkicon on Instax
Gaming And Festing With A Classic Style
In the years Game Over Videogames has been doing Classic Game Fest it's been very interesting watching it grow. And with it's fifth year doing everything in one location it's gotten better every year. One of the best parts is how a bunch of my friends come together (a good chunk of them coming in from out of town) to have a good time. This year was no different.
The one thing that was different was where they had the Music stage this year. Before they had it in the main hall where the bulk of the vendors were. It would have some light but it was workable with my old Canon Rebel T3i. But for 2017 they moved it off to another space to sit not far from the Console, Arcade and Pinball sections. So with that move they decided to not have most of the lights on.
Let's just say I'm glad I had moved to the Fujifilm X-T2 by this point.
In the past in their previous set ups I would have to shoot at ISO 3200 on the T3i in order to be able to shoot at a 1/125 shutter speed to get that nice little blend of frozen action and movement with the 18-55mm f/5.6. And with RAW processing I could bump up the exposure by a stop without making me cringe. In this particular set up if I did not have a lens with a wider aperture I would have been completely fucked. And even then it might have ben questionable.
With the X-T2 I was able to get really good photos at ISO 6400 and even some rather usable ones at ISO 12,800. Which was good since there really wasn't much in the way of stage lighting aside from some light bars on the stage itself. But I was still able to use shadow recovery and exposure adjustment to give some definition to the photos without really taking away from what people would have actually seen if they were there.
All in all a good time. Got to see a bunch of my friends win over some new fans, watched a young kid win the video game trivia contest (like seriously this kid must've been ten... and he knew history like I did being 40), some awesome cosplay, plus some cute moments like a dad making sure his daughter could play Defender.
