Baseball and Softball.

I shot a baseball and a softball game over the weekend. Using the 70-200mm 2.8L w/ and w/ out the 1.4x TC. C+C welcome!

1. Pitching with a runner on first.

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3. Bubbles in the dugout. lol

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5. Batter up. Runner on second.

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7. Fierce.

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maybe it's my eyes, but they seem a bit soft. Love that bubble one though.

carpenter wrote in post #5421455
maybe it's my eyes, but they seem a bit soft. Love that bubble one though.

They are a bit soft. I had on the 1.4x TC for most of them. The lens is going into canon soon.

Ditto

carpenter wrote in post #5421455
maybe it's my eyes, but they seem a bit soft. Love that bubble one though.

Were they shot on Raw or Jpg?

Aaagogo wrote in post #5421669
Ditto

Were they shot on Raw or Jpg?

They were all shot in JPEG.

Oh and all of the baseball ones are ISO 800. The softball ones are anywhere from 200 to 800 ISO.

And... lol... I had to shoot the softball from behind this net... I was focused far enough past it that u didn't even see it. It was pretty cool.

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Crazy - before you send back the white baby, let me ask you a couple of questions -

do you use the cn4-3 option to use the back star focus button (as apposed to pressing shutter half-way to lock focus), and, have you set the AF point to be the center point? I would say almost all the shots seemed (at least to my older eyes), out of focus, and I'm not sure that this is totally the lens' fault. I've not heard (at least in my limited experience) of a bad 70-200 - I know that lenses do need to go in for maintenance every now and then (calibration). Before you send the lens back, I think there is some test you can do to make sure it is a problem with the equipment rather than technique. A search on the forums here will show you the test. It's some sort of a grid you download and print out and you take test focus shots of the grid.

I've found that using the back focus button is tremendously better than relying on the shutter half-way.

Pat

Hey Pat. I use the back star to focus and I had the center focus point set. I test the lens using the chart already. It is back-focusing. None the less I decided to give it another week or two before sending it in. I am shooting some motocross this weekend. Its going in after that.

crazyskillz07 wrote in post #5422133
Hey Pat. I use the back star to focus and I had the center focus point set. I test the lens using the chart already. It is back-focusing. None the less I decided to give it another week or two before sending it in. I am shooting some motocross this weekend. Its going in after that.

Oh well, if you did the test and know for sure it's the lens, then you should send it in, I was just trying to avoid the temporary loss of the white baby for you, any chance it is still under warranty so you don't get hit with a bill??

pigtailpat wrote in post #5423566
Oh well, if you did the test and know for sure it's the lens, then you should send it in, I was just trying to avoid the temporary loss of the white baby for you, any chance it is still under warranty so you don't get hit with a bill??

Oh yea. The warranty is fresh. I have only had the lens for a month. Unfortunately the place I bought it from does not allow returns or exchanges of equipment with problems such as this.

I can't stop looking at the bokeh in the pic of the net I was behind. It just looks so nice!


Any C+C on the colors composition and such of the other pictures? Focus aside...