Marathon Madness

[drisley]

Today was my first chance to use my MK3 outdoors for a sporting event since I bought it, and it seemed to work well.

Because of the strange weather (and trees), my favourite feature today was the "Safety Shift:ISO". One moment the sky would be clear, then a few minutes later it would be covered with what looked like rain clouds. And back and forth it went all morning. I needed to use ISO800 to get decent shutter speeds in the shade when the cloud was overhead, but once the sun broke out, I noticed I would be hitting the 1/8000s shutter limit, over exposing images. So I remembered to enable safety shift, and voila, problem solved. When the sun came out, the camera geared down my ISO to keep the exposure nice.

All pictures were taken with a 70-200 at F2.8. ISO's were 400-800

1.
http://images2.fotop.net/albums2/isp/marathon2008/6K2J1919.jpg

2.
http://images2.fotop.net/albums2/isp/marathon2008/6K2J1817.jpg


3.
http://images2.fotop.net/albums2/isp/marathon2008/6K2J1990.jpg

4.
http://images2.fotop.net/albums2/isp/marathon2008/6K2J1883.jpg

5. The off center focus points worked really well today in servo mode
http://images2.fotop.net/albums2/isp/marathon2008/6K2J1940.jpg

6. This can't be comfortable
http://images2.fotop.net/albums2/isp/marathon2008/6K2J1994.jpg

7.This was our MC for the morning. This was our pleasant "traffic cop".
http://images2.fotop.net/albums2/isp/marathon2008/6K2J1791.jpg


8. This squirrel was running about all morning with peanuts in his mouth.
http://images2.fotop.net/albums2/isp/marathon2008/6K2J1828.jpg

[manutd101]

Oooh, I'm so jealous! Beautiful pics by the way :)

[mrclark321]

Nice work Dris. :)

[drisley]

Hmm, I missed this. It looks like Tiger Woods was running our marathon yesterday. I should have tripped him for making negative comments about hockey a few weeks ago.

9.
http://images2.fotop.net/albums2/isp/marathon2008/6K2J1811.jpg

[bobbyz]

Nice shots. Like #3.