>On Nov 3, 2003, at 8:40 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: > >... stuff cut out ... > >> >>It is also very hard to photograph an athlete that is moving very >>fast, at night under artificial lighting, with a slow telephoto >>lens and get it sharp. (I know. I've tried.) You can use higher >>speed film, but the graininess gets a lot worse. Take one of THOSE >>photos and crop it tightly so you can see the face of the athlete >>and then blow it up to full page, and "viola!" you have Sports >>Illustrated! >> >
Then Jerry wrote: >Shucks, Canon will happily sell you an EF 300 mm f2.8 L lens (with >Image Stabilizer and Ultra Sonic Motor) for around $3800 - $3900 or >so ... That ought to do the trick. > >sigh, > >Yeah it's on my "after I get really rich and do other stuff first" >list as well. (really big grin) It's a lot easier shooting moving objects now since the advent of the faster auto focus cameras and lenses. The image stabilization helps when you can't steady yourself or use a tripod or mono pod. If you don't have auto focus, you can always practice on cars driving toward you to get your follow focus skills down! Shoot alot film is cheap.....digital is cheaper(no processing costs)! Sports Illustrated very rarely shoots available light, basketball(even high school sometimes!), hockey, indoor track are all shot with large ceiling mounted strobes, even sometimes swimming meets! Where as baseball, football, and outdoor track are all shot available light usually because they are lit bright enough for tv, it way more then enough for stills, though you still a lot of the time end up pushing the film to get the shutter speed faster. John -- U-2 and SR-71 Web Page http://www.blackbirds.net Those who would sacrifice Liberty for Security deserve neither -Benjamin Franklin | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
