MDJAK
4th of May 2005 (Wed), 19:38
Now that the weather is nice and wrestling season is over for the local high schools, I've been shooting their baseball games. I love shooting baseball. I find it one of the easier sports to shoot: Outdoors, usually great light on sunny days enables high shutter speeds with low ISO. The first few games I used my 70-200F2.8 IS on my 1DSMKII with excellent results. For one game I added my Canon 1.4 teleconverter to extend my reach a bit, even though I'm able to stand within about ten feet of the base paths, near first or third base.
Today, I decided to lighten my load a bit and used my 70-300 DO IS. It had been lonely in my camera backpack lately, not seeing very much use at all.
While I was pleased with the results and the slight bit more reach, the relative slow speed of it required ISO up to 800, wherein with the 70-200F2.8 I was using 200, 320 and 400.
I also decided to be lazy in another way today and shoot only jpegs, large, at a setting of 2 with saturation set. I will actually be getting paid for the first time this Saturday, helping out another photographer at a sportsplex in Connecticut. He's going to have a runner picking up and returning my cards. He has the Digital Rebel and does not want to handle my very large raw files, nor my large jpegs. He's asked me to give him files the same size as what his Rebel does, so that's why I used jpeg today.
All in all, the 70-300 is a great lens, and my main purpose in purchasing it was as a walkaround lens of high quality and good zoom range. For that it fits the bill just fine. Next time, however, I'll stick to my big whitey.
Today, I decided to lighten my load a bit and used my 70-300 DO IS. It had been lonely in my camera backpack lately, not seeing very much use at all.
While I was pleased with the results and the slight bit more reach, the relative slow speed of it required ISO up to 800, wherein with the 70-200F2.8 I was using 200, 320 and 400.
I also decided to be lazy in another way today and shoot only jpegs, large, at a setting of 2 with saturation set. I will actually be getting paid for the first time this Saturday, helping out another photographer at a sportsplex in Connecticut. He's going to have a runner picking up and returning my cards. He has the Digital Rebel and does not want to handle my very large raw files, nor my large jpegs. He's asked me to give him files the same size as what his Rebel does, so that's why I used jpeg today.
All in all, the 70-300 is a great lens, and my main purpose in purchasing it was as a walkaround lens of high quality and good zoom range. For that it fits the bill just fine. Next time, however, I'll stick to my big whitey.