I have a Nikon D50 camera and want to know how to take sport shots in a gym with fluorescent light?

Answer 1

I hope you have a fast lens! Indoor fluorescent light does not provide the ideal amount of light for photography.

White Balance: The white balance button is the one to the left of the review screen, 2nd from the bottom. Now look at the LCD screen on the top of the camera whilst you are holding that button. At the same time rotate the command dial (the one your thumb is near when you are taking a shot) move the command dial until you see a symbol of a rectangle with lines coming out of it in the top LCD screen. This is fluorescent white balance.

Now hold the 3rd button from the bottom on the left of the camera. Again rotate the command dial until the ISO setting reads 400.

Now on the mode selector on the very top left of the camera, rotate the dial until "S" is selected. Rotate the command dial (right thumb) until you see 100 written at the bottom of the viewfinder for shutter speed. This is 1/100th of a second. Ideally you would shoot faster still but this is likely to be about the best you get unless you lens is very special. (F2.8 or VR etc) Play with the shutter speed by rotating the command dial. Review your work as you go. If you get the error "Lo" in your viewfinder, this means the camera can't correctly expose. Try bumping your ISO up to 800, this will make grainier photos though. I would not recommend using ISO 1600 at all. If the number beside the 100 in the bottom of the viewfinder is higher than say 6.3, try shooting at an even faster speed, say 125 or even 160 or 200 the faster the better.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

I have both cameras so I can give you an answer from having used both and not just looking at the specifications on a piece of paperp.People make the assumption that just because a newer camera has more megapixels then it must obviously be better. Not true. Both these camera have the same size sensors. There is only so much megapixels that can be squeezed into a sensor size before having diminishing returns and I must stay that is what these newer cameras are suffering from.the more features and more mp's that are crammed in, then the harder the processor has to work. My D50, which incidentally can not only use the older lenses but the new dx vr ones too, works great and consistently outperforms the d3100 every time, especially in low light. Don't be fooled by the megapixel count on a camera. I would choose a used D50 over a newer d3000 range Nikon every time. For all intents and purposes, these cameras are more than adequate and even better than most new ones.

Answer 3

Turn your white balance to fluorescent, turn off the flash, and crank the ISO up to 400 or greater.

Answer 4

grab a 50mm f1.8 or 1.4 and shoot at iso 400 (possible 800 if faster action)