You hit the nail on the head with that comment, Bob.
With an SLR if the bat is moving when you hit the shutter you missed the shot.
I seem to remember using the slight hunch of the batter's shoulders before the
bat starts swinging as a trigger signal when I was shooting team sports (I
never have shot any pro sports). Anticipation is the answer.
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Bob W wrote:
You shouldn't be reacting to a baseball pitch (or a bowler bowling in
cricket). You know where the ball is, and can predict where and when the bat
and ball will make contact (if at all). Anybody with decent hand/eye
coordination should be able to get the shot.
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Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: DagT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 06 June 2005 17:49
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Interesting conversation yesterday
P� 6. jun. 2005 kl. 18.40 skrev John Francis:
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:03:44AM -0400, Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
Anyway, he like to shoot sports. Especially baseball.
What he likes to get is the ball coming off the bat, and
5fps isn't
fast enough for him. Hmmm.
I've said it before, and I'm sure I'll have to sy it again:
You can't rely on using the camera in machine-gun mode to
get a timed
shot - you have to time the shutter press yourself.
The advantage of a 5fps camera is that it is ready for the
next shot
in half the time a 2.5fps camera takes, so it is more likely to be
ready for the next shot.
I agree. A good and prepared photographer can react in 1/10 second.
To match that you need 10 pictures/second.
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