With fall approaching and the days growing shorter each week, many people will find their favorite cellphone camera won’t work when it comes to taking photos in low light or of fast action. When using cellphone cameras to take picture of football games, fall colors and other great subjects when the light is low or the action is fast, a cellphone camera is overmatched and typically will produce poor photos with blurry images. Instead of using subpar photography equipment or cellphones with cameras that aren’t suitable for low light and fast action, renting a quality Canon or Nikon camera can make a big difference in photo quality and give you the ability to capture your son or daughter competing in sports or taking photos of outdoor colors and other subjects with sharp, in-focus images.

Fast Lenses Work Best in Low Light

Whether shooting photos indoors or in low daylight conditions, suchclanek_image as near dusk, a fast lens helps to capture the scene. A fast lens is one that captures as much of the available light as possible. In many cases, that means using a lens with a maximum aperture setting of F2.8, which can be very expensive. Some lenses might be as fast as an F1.4, which means the lens and camera are seeing almost as much light as the naked eye. For the sake of comparison, an F1:1 lens would be equal to seeing with the human eye. With a good Canon or Nikon single-lens reflex camera, you can switch lenses for light and shooting conditions and improve the quality of images use.

Flashes and Tripods Help Improve Shooting Conditions

A good flash unit can help your camera to cut through poor light and capture fast-moving images, such as a football player sprinting toward the end zone. And with a tripod, you can take landscape photos under nearly any condition and capture the unique colors that present themselves during the minutes when the sun in very low in the sky and the atmosphere and cloud formations create brilliant colors. The same is true of fall color season when trying to capture the gorgeous changing leaves.

What kinds of photos do you take that a faster camera could improve?