Going to Baksetball tonight, is it worth taking my camera?

Hi all, I'm going to a game here in Australia tonight. My question is . .. . .... is i t worth taking my 400D armed only with my 75-300mm f4 - f 5.6? if so what set up would you recommend? I'll be a few rows back, hopefully no more than 15.
Fairly well lit stadium. Any ideas? on slowest speed, ISO, RAW or JPeg, anything else? I wont be usin a flash of course. Love to hear any feedback!

Can't hurt to bring it. Definitely RAW and the highest ISO you can stand the noise at... If it doesn't work out, no real loss, at least you'll know.

My thoughts exactly, love to hear ny one else's thoughts too

check if it's even legal to bring a camera. since you're 15 rows back, you certainly don't have press creds, and it sounds like it's a fairly large thing, it may be better just to sit back and enjoy the game. personally, if i can't get on the floor/sideline/in the way for a game/game/any event, i'll just not take my camera and enjoy the time

Seen plenty of camera's there b4, just no flashes allowed, it's hard to enjoy the way my team is going! hehe. It's a 5000 seat stadium by the way.

I'd google the arena for their official rules regarding cameras. Some facilities are very specific, i.e. "No lenses longer than 200MM." Other might just say "No 'professional' cameras."

Broncosaurus wrote in post #2423546
I'd google the arena for their official rules regarding cameras. Some facilities are very specific, i.e. "No lenses longer than 200MM." Other might just say "No 'professional' cameras."

I was at an arena that had a six inch rule. Then the door person told me to go to another door. I had no issues at the other door.

High ISO in TV mode. is that correct?

Hi all, just returned from the game, results were average. Used ISO 800 and 1600, speed 325 - 400 in TV mode. only problem is excessive noise. Here is one pic with as much noise reduced as I can, but I have forfeited a lot of detail to acheive it. I probably wouldn't take it again until I had the appropriate lens. I'll scour through my shots in the coming days to see if any are ok to post.

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This is the same pic before I reduced the noise

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The image before noise reduction is shocking. I thought the 400D was great at High ISO?

Darren

DarrenL wrote in post #2424714
The image before noise reduction is shocking. I thought the 400D was great at High ISO?

Darren

I think it might be that lens.

f/5.6 is doable in a well lit arena. Here's one I pulled off a year ago at f/5.6 ISO 3200 with the 20D + 300/4L IS, no flash or strobes.