What's the best camera to take Haunted Mansion?

[Sub Maniak]

I currently just have a digital camera to take shots of the parks. What is the best type of camera, digital or non-digital, for the Haunted Mansion.

Thanks.

[AcuraTL]

Probably a DSLR, because you don't want to use flash but still have a fast enough shutter so your pictures won't be blurry. Or use a very high ISO but the picture will come out pretty grainy on regular, non DSLR cameras.

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I'd use an SLR, with a 50mm f/1.4 or faster lens (zooms are too slow), and 800-speed film. And I seriously doubt that any digital camera costing less than four-figures is going to give you any better results in lighting that dim, than a good old fashioned silver emulsion.

[bradk]

i took daddyb's advice and shot at 1/50 with ISO 1600. it works well for the most part, sometimes it needs some adjustments. it works well on the stuff that's fairly well lit, like the bride and leota, but the coffin, for example, comes out a bit dark. it can be lightened with a graphics editor, but it's not the best quality. i'm afraid anything much slower than 1/50 however will result in blurry photos.

i did have some autofocusing issues if i didn't zoom in enough on the object in question. for example, leota needed to be a tight shot, otherwise the camera was lost with all the dark background.

shameless self promotion, but if you want to see how it worked out for me (or didn't work out), my HM photos start here: http://bradk.smugmug.com/gallery/1465116/38/70032999

external, than internal. all external shots are shot in fully automatic mode though, probably around 1/250 shutter.

[DisneyDustin22]

Your best bet also is to be on board when they are unloading or loading a wheelchair, or when the attraction goes down. This will allow you to focus on on a subject and take a slightly longer exposure b/c you wont be moving by as fast. I was there last night and here is a shot I took inside HM when it was slowed to load a wheelchair. This was shot with the Canon 350D. 1600 and around a 1/20. The darker is the original shot, untouched. But you can see in photo 2, just a small tweak in photoshop can bring it out.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b173/Dustin2345/1.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...in2345/2-1.jpg

[Vegitabeta]

Ask DaddyB, he seems to get good dark ride shots

[disneyhound]

I would use a Brownie Hawkeye. Just ask them to turn up the house lights. The phosporus flash can create a lot of smoke.

[DaddyB]

To get good shots in any of the dark rides including (but not limited to) Haunted Mansion, Splash Mountain, and Pirates of the Caribbean, I usually resign myself to riding through at least 3 times using different settings each time. I found a trick setting on my external flash to use it's IR beam to get the camera to focus, and yet not flash when the picture is taken. The next step is (as someone else said) setting the camera's shutter speed fast enough and the Aperture low enough to get the shots to come out... and the film speed fast enough so that they're not overly spotted with random color dots ("noise").

I wish I could afford a 4 figure canon camera body, but I cannot. I typically shoot dark rides with a Canon 350d and a 20mm 1.8 lens. I used to have a faster lens (1.2) but didn't see that the difference helped all that much, but getting more than just a nose or a single point in focus was a bear.

[Doug]

Really large aperatures=very shallow depth of field, in other words, big hole=blury pics.... but... more light makes it to your film/image sensor ... so it is a trade off... how much money you spend on your camera means very little, as the physics win out everytime.... just use a video camera with night shot, and capture stills from the video .... which reminds me, I have not tried my 30mm f1.4 on HM... that's a thought.... oh yeah, and you will probably always need 1600 ISO! Then again, try black & white film, more sensitive that color, and less suseptible to whiting out (too much light hitting the film) ... <- see film does have 1 good use still