I have shot this venue the last two years so I know what I am up against. The only way to shoot it is with a wide to short tele zoom - basically the DA* 16-50 works extremely well. Since I have it and used it last year, that is the lens of choice. For this particular use, AF will probably not be used much. These are team competitions where each member of the team does the same basic thing one after the other. So you would have 10 kids vault one after the other. Literally seconds apart. So you pre-focus on a spot and fire as each one passes through.
I do get the run of the floor so I can move around, hence little need for a long lens. But for other basketball shots and evening soccer, continuous AF would be important. Several have mentioned a superfast lens like 1.2 - 1.8 - the issue with that aside from no zoom capability is that I don't want to shoot with so little DOF - f4 is about as fast as I want to shoot. -- Best regards, Bruce Monday, February 1, 2010, 6:40:25 PM, you wrote: ps> I'm guessing that Stan is being facetious. You really need a zoom ps> to shoot most sporting events. You don't want to crop a 50mm shot to 200mm FOV. ps> I thought the shots Bruce posted with the K20D were relatively ps> noise free. I'd worry about a Kx in terms of write speed and ps> autofocus control. You want to be able to choose your focus point ps> when necessary, and a full buffer is not a good thing when shooting action. ps> Paul ps> On Feb 1, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: >> A50/1.2 Crop as needed. >> >> stan >> >> On Feb 1, 2010, at 12:15 AM, Sandy Harris wrote: >> >>> On 2/1/10, Bruce Dayton <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Very much appreciated. If there is enough difference I may spring >>>> for a K-x. >>> >>> Could you get a faster lens instead? The 77/1.8 limited and >>> the 85/1.4 are both reportedly excellent. Would they be long >>> enough? If manual focus is OK, perhaps the A * 135/1.8? >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
