Hello Bruce - thanks for noticing and answering.. You have got a very good point about hte DOF, Bruce. I guess, I was not comfident enough, that I could focus correctly enought to go down to F.3.5-4.5. I shot all shots at F. 5.6 - F8. Basically I used Tv and chose 1/1250 or 1/1000 sec's. I used AF most of the time (mostly not fast enough). I tried AF-C, but that didin't work - too many optional focus points - the camera kept focusing at the background (the sponsor add).
Manual foucs didn'¨t work either - the movemnets of the players was too unpredictable. (Or I am out of prctice). So, I finally settled for AF-S. Naturally I used my true everyday servant - my monopod! I had problems with lenses - I had to change between 28-70mm, and 80-200mm frequently. I did notice that the pro's at the site usded two cameras, for that very same reason. I guess that the best focal length for a soccer game would be something like 35-150mm or even 28-180mm. It seems to me Pentax is missing a lens in this range. The DA 50-200mm gets close, though. But for indoor ball games this would be too slow. Sigma males a 50-150mm F. 2.8. Tokina makes a 50-135mm F. 2.8 - both of which wouls be just about suitable for such work. I gues my F1:4/45-125mm would be fine great if it had AF! I guess it's long focusing turns will be a problem, if used with MF. I'm going to shoot annother soccer game on thursday. I guess I'll be bringing the 45-125mm AND two cameras - just in case :-) Which lens do you guys use for ball games? Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk +45 56 63 77 11 +45 23 43 85 77 Skype: jensbladt248 -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Bruce Dayton Sendt: 2. april 2007 02:20 Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Emne: Re: GOSE: My first soccer game Hello Jens, Good shots of the action. You managed to catch some pretty good moments. The only thing that stood out to me a bit was that the DOF was quite wide. For some shots, that worked pretty well, but for some, it seemed that there was a lot of background competing for my attention. I would be very interested if you would go in to some detail on how you shot this - camera, lens, techniques (metering, AF, etc). For being out of practice, you done well. -- Bruce Sunday, April 1, 2007, 3:47:34 PM, you wrote: JB> My home town is going to build a new football stadium. JB> So, the planning department (that's where I work) wants photographs from the JB> old one - for a public meeting on the subject. JB> I haven't photographed a real soccer game since the early 1980'ies - before JB> Auto Focus was common. JB> I was surprised how difficult it was :-) JB> Hopefully I'll do a little better next time... JB> http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/sets/72157600041128273/show/ JB> Regards JB> Jens Bladt JB> http://www.jensbladt.dk JB> -- JB> No virus found in this outgoing message. JB> Checked by AVG Free Edition. JB> Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.24/741 - Release Date: 03/31/2007 JB> 20:54 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.24/741 - Release Date: 03/31/2007 20:54 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.24/741 - Release Date: 03/31/2007 20:54 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
