Can 5D Mark III be used to shoot sports ?

Do you think the 6 fps can cut it in sports?

Wow, I thought you might have a picture to share

I wish!

I got really excited to see images from it, hahahahah. I'm bummed

I changed the title. It was deceiving.

mrgooch wrote in post #14014111
Do you think the 6 fps can cut it in sports?

Well since the 5D2 can I expect 5D3 can too

Believe it or not, there was a time when the best sports photographers in the world shot film with manual focus lenses and manual cameras and no motor drives.

you can shoot sports with a holga.. these 5d3's are more than capable of shooting sports.

NO. You're not allowed to. We'll take away your membership card and shiny badge if you do.

Sam6644 wrote in post #14014786
Believe it or not, there was a time when the best sports photographers in the world shot film with manual focus lenses and manual cameras and no motor drives.

I am one of those people. Just thought I'd get a heated discussion going.

absolutely you can shoot sports with 6fps.

They cannot really be used to shoot much at all at the moment - no one has one!!

mrgooch wrote in post #14014111
Do you think the 6 fps can cut it in sports?

It won't make any difference.

Sports from a 3 fps Canon T2i.

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Sam6644 wrote in post #14014786
Believe it or not, there was a time when the best sports photographers in the world shot film with manual focus lenses and manual cameras and no motor drives.

And most of their output sucked too, if we judge it relative to the very best work being created today. It isn't that they lacked talent, but people with just as much talent are working with much better equipment now. I can go back and look at old sports periodicals and the difference is striking.

Another difference now is that legions of hobbiests are cranking out images that are better than the high end work of top professionals from 30 years ago. The technology really helps, I gotta admit it.

To the OP - six fps is kind of slow for the kind of situations where a burst is going to be the way to get a shot. But I've done quite a bit of sports work with a 5D, and just timing a single shot is the best approach for a huge fraction of shots.

When a burst works better (and believe me, there are times when a burst is better) the faster the frame rate the more likely you are going to be to get the exact moment you really want. With six fps, you'll just miss that timing fairly often.

Honestly I can't remember a time where I shot more than 3 frames in a burst. Can it? Sure. It all comes down to learning your equipment.

There are some things that I like the 1D series more for such as the fast autofocus and durability of the bodies in weather.