I went to the local metal venue last night, and finally took the camera along after overcoming my fear of it getting kicked by a hardcore dancer or smashed in a mosh pit.

I got a couple of decent shots, but had to use the Canon EF 50mm 1.8 lens, (which is now starting to stick in places when focusing manually) and shoot all of them at ISO 1600. I also had to shoot jpegs, because I left my 2 GB CF card at home on accident, and all I had was 1 512 MB card for such emergencies.

I accidentally dropped my Sigma 75-300mm lens on the floor (about 4 feet too :/) right when I walked in when I was changing from it to the 50mm because I left my backpack unzipped. Luckily, it's pretty tough, so all that was really damaged was my pride.

I was pretty surprised I got anything decent at all, the stage lighting in there is pretty poor (even just by human eye standards) and there was really only two spots that had good enough lighting to make a photograph. Even then, I shot it at ISO 1600 and either 1/30 or 1/60 of a second at F1.8. So quite a few shots that I thought were going to be good were either too blurry or out of focus, and it didn't help that my 50mm started to stick in manual focus mode.

It was worth it though.