Saturday night lights
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Went to my daughters high school football game tonight with the Sony 700, tripod, battery grip, 400mm 5.6 and a pack full of lenses. Within 20 min the Assistant principal
Hey, Mike. If you have not found it yet, there’s a lot of discussion on this topic at http://www.sportsshooter.com
Have fun.
Thanks for the link Scott!
That’s what I’m talking about Neal! That first guy looks like he has a 400 F4? and a 80-200 2.8 which should cover most everything for that kind of shooting.
Finally got around to uploading a few of these photos. These are straight out of the camera saved as .jpg and resized. I know Sony has had a bad rep for noise but I’m very happy with these results. Most of these are at ISO 1600 some are 1250.
Mike, that shot of #5 running to catch the ball is a near perfect picture!!! Wow, nice blur on the edges but relative focus of the subject, just imagine what the 2.8 could do for you.
Mike nice job on these.
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The big lens the guy is carrying is the 500 F4 L..My dream lens, retails for 7,000.00 after taxes.The smaller is very likely a 70-200 f2.8 IS or it may be the 100-400. Hard to tell. If it were a night game it would not the the 100-400L. However its day and plenty of light.
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the question you need to ask yourself is f2.8 going to be fast enough?
These were shot at F4 I’m assuming? This isn’t meant as a “critique” in any way, you did well and should be happy.Virtually all them display motion blur, from a little to a lot.
I wonder if f2.8 is going to be fast enough.
I can tell you f2.8 is not fast enough for my girls volleyball or gymanstics. The Bass thing I did on the weekend was very low light and while the zoom range of the 70-200 f2.8 would have been ideal.
very little would have been sharp.
ISO 800 f1.8 and under 1/200th all morning.I got away with that as I didnt need faster than 1/200th to “freeze” action and could pan the boats fairly easily
With sports like, football, volleyball, gymnastics etc you very likely need/want 1/800th.
Do you have a 50mm f1.4 or 100mm f2.8 macro?
If so when you have a chance to get to the field, “meter” the scene with one of those lenses.Thanks guys.
John this is the kind of information I was looking for and yes the lens if F4.
That’s a good idea,I have a 50 F1.4 and a 50 F2.8. I’ll meter using them next time and see what I can get away with. I still had lots of
They’ll be more chances.
I usually my beter shots come once I’ve done something once. I get home review, find where things might be changed and then approach the situation in a new “light”.the problem with football games and probably soccer as well is your going to have 2 problems to overcome.
1) lack of light and the desire to freeze action..(some shots are great with a little motion blur)..Basically you want to find what maximum aperture you need to “freeze” action, that way if you to explore some shots with a little motion blur you can stop down a third (or more) from there.
2) Range.
Action can be close or it can be far away. Fast, long lenses are crazy expensive. The 200mm f1.8 L runs I think 9,000, popular with hockey, basketball, gymanstics etc.If f2.8 turns out to be dicey….thats alot of coin for something that may work sometimes (slower action) but not freeze faster stuff.
I only brought it up as at F4 you can tell in some you needed quite a bit more SS and I just wonder if f2.8 will be the difference for you.
If not you can look for alternatives like an 85 f1.8. It may not have the reach for the far end of the field but is good for most else (range wise)
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