I was at the Natural History Museum in Berlin today with one of my daughters and found this hominid starring out at his “decedents”.  Unfortunately for me, no tripods allowed, which I had assumed (so I left that at home).  Sad part of it all was that I was also banned from using my carbon fiber Gitzo monopod, which I had brought along.  No problemo!  I won’t let the man (actually it was a female guard) keep me down, so I set the camera’s ISO to AUTO with a max ISO of 6400 and blasted off my brackets.  I had several tourists staring at me as my trusty D700 rat-tat-tatted away, almost certainly wondering how I could shoot without a flash (or maybe they were annoyed by the report of my heavy artillery).  Get some, monkey man!! Get some!!  Sure there was some noise in the images, but I got the shot I wanted.