Jen was dancing last night at Amira, a restaurant in the Mission district in SF. I brought the 10D along and since the restaurant was mostly empty, I was able to take a few pictures without getting in the way of the patrons.

The light is notoriously bad in these Middle Eastern restaurants. Well, that's not true. It's great for the mood and the dancing, but not so hot for photography. I have a nice speedlite flash, but I hesitate using it at night because I detest the effect of having a large shadow on the wall behind the subject.

Instead I went for my fastest lens (50mm 1.4) and a moderately high ISO of 800. I was really happy with the camera's ability to maintain focus in such low light and while the images came out with a slightly orangish yellow cast, that's fine, because that's the way the light looks inside the place.

So far I love this camera, the only problem being the 3 frames per second. I really need something a little faster for shooting soccer and baseball and other sports, but for landscape and portraits, the 10D is brilliant.