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Shot with the Tamron 70-200mm VC - not the fastest in focussing...

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Great shot, focus, contrast at 200mm, I am very impressed. Was that on a tripod?. I need to take a closer look at this lens. I hope I do not need a 5D4 for results like this as I am going to hold onto my 5D3 little longer.

I had a chance to try out it's use as an sports machine. I shot with the 5D4 all day Saturday for the Dirt Riot Nationals offroad race. Since I have to have the images turned around quickly, I shot JPEG all day and I'm stunned at how well it worked. The JPEG's seem almost as flexible as RAW files in Lightroom. I just turned sharpness to nothing in camera and relied on PP for all sharpening. Shot on 1 CF card all day, and never had to open the camera except to swap lenses. 4200 shots and there was no way I was going to cull through those in DPP...

Its easy to forget how nice Canon JPEGs are when you have shot in raw for so long.

YunusEmre wrote in post #18132632
Great shot, focus, contrast at 200mm, I am very impressed. Was that on a tripod?. I need to take a closer look at this lens. I hope I do not need a 5D4 for results like this as I am going to hold onto my 5D3 little longer.

If you referred to my pelican:no, hand held. Past experience with the 5D3 and Tamron 70-200mm VC combo was a bit slow AF. The 5D4 seems to handle this better. Older Tamrons (sold before 15 May this year have a problem when used with live view or video. As I do ot use that often it does not bother me much.

Occasionally, I've done jpegs, but honestly for this kind of shooting, I'd found it too hit or miss.The lighting is so horribly harsh that it's never gone well. Some shots there is so much dust that you it affects exposure and some shots you find are into the sun. In the past I always had shots that were unusuable due to blown highlights, or underexposed and this time there was nothing I couldn't fix in post production easily.

vk2gwk wrote in post #18132654
If you referred to my pelican:no, hand held. Past experience with the 5D3 and Tamron 70-200mm VC combo was a bit slow AF. The 5D4 seems to handle this better. Older Tamrons (sold before 15 May this year have a problem when used with live view or video. As I do ot use that often it does not bother me much.

I shot both 70-200s the Canon mk2 and the Tamron VC. Not sure how you claim the AF was slow on the tamron when I've done extensive testing that indicated equality. The Tamron is no slouch.

offcamber wrote in post #18132776
Occasionally, I've done jpegs, but honestly for this kind of shooting, I'd found it too hit or miss.The lighting is so horribly harsh that it's never gone well. Some shots there is so much dust that you it affects exposure and some shots you find are into the sun. In the past I always had shots that were unusuable due to blown highlights, or underexposed and this time there was nothing I couldn't fix in post production easily.

I don't see how someone can do 4200 shots in a day. Surely that is alot of spray and pray.

I did over a thousand in about half an hour one day over summer!

My girlfriend and I were bombing into a swimming pool and so I set the camera to continuous shooting. There was a lot of rubbish to sort through!!

I mean I get it... I can do 4-600 photos easy just in a 1.5hr baseball or football game so thats basically the same as keeping that pace up for a full 11-12 hours. That just seems like a whole lot though. I think if I went into a day knowing I'd have 10+hrs of shooting then I would be a bit more selective with it.

The high ISO on this camera seems to be real good, here is a JPEG sooc at iso 8000(for some reason it says iso 6400 on here but flickr reads it correctly at 8000)

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You've never shot motorsports then, especially off-road racing. You never know when something is going to happen and if you wait until it does to snap the shutter, it's too late. Between trying to catch a moment of chaos and panning shots (which with trucks going 100+ mph and also not staying still in the vertical, there is some spray and pray involved.

offcamber wrote in post #18132955
You've never shot motorsports then, especially off-road racing. You never know when something is going to happen and if you wait until it does to snap the shutter, it's too late. Between trying to catch a moment of chaos and panning shots (which with trucks going 100+ mph and also not staying still in the vertical, there is some spray and pray involved.

Understood. and yes I have not done any motorsports yet.

vk2gwk wrote in post #18132654
If you referred to my pelican:no, hand held. Past experience with the 5D3 and Tamron 70-200mm VC combo was a bit slow AF. The 5D4 seems to handle this better. Older Tamrons (sold before 15 May this year have a problem when used with live view or video. As I do ot use that often it does not bother me much.

Yes I was. Very impressive with it being handheld as well. As long as it is not as slow as the Keg 2 I can bare it! I might try renting the lens.