JD, yes, I agree. Thanks for the note. Last year, with my D30 and a 70-200mm f/2.8L IS, my in-focus 'hit' percentage was miserable for hockey games.
With my 1D now, same lens, my 'hit' percentage is dramatically improved. Still, I lose a lot of shots, due a lot because I can't shoot faster than 1/250th. Now, on to the next level, still using the 1D, but with a more DOF limited 200mm f/1.8L lens, and shooting at 1/500th now. I don't know what to expect, but I'm going to try. I appreciate the note of caution on DOF. I agree on the eyes for portraits being in focus as an absolute - I'll sometime shoot at about f/16 just to make sure. But the eye's on a (non-portrait) hockey player in action screaming down the floor, behind a big helmet, are tough to get a good shot of at all. In fact, I never use the LCD screen for anything at hockey matching. The screen's clarity isn't good enough to judge focus from, and stadium lighting is so poor overall that you just set the camera to manual exposure mode, on the lowest settings, and hope for the best. I'd like some day to have the 'insurance' of my lens aperture set to something other than the smallest DOF setting - my guess is this won't ever happen, though, until I get permission (if ever) to set up some strobes. Best regards, Bill Neukranz -----Original Message----- From: Jay D. Washington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 7:42 PM Subject: RE: SHOOTING WITH AN EOS-1D & A 200mm f/1.8L LENS With the 1.8 apertures you will have a much smaller depth of field. I know on just my 85mm 1.8 that if I don't get the eyes in focus, my portrait is ruined. I would guess that with fast moving subjects, such as your hockey players, you may have a lot of shots where the focus is not where you wanted it to be. You may not be able so notice this on the small LCD screen either, and won't really know you've missed the shot until you've downloaded and opened it on your photo editing program. I could be wrong, but when I'm depending on autofocus on fast moving subjects, a little extra depth of field is like insurance. As I said before, I haven't tried shooting a * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
