Today was my first chance to use my MK3 outdoors for a sporting event since I bought it, and it seemed to work well.
Because of the strange weather (and trees), my favourite feature today was the "Safety Shift:ISO". One moment the sky would be clear, then a few minutes later it would be covered with what looked like rain clouds. And back and forth it went all morning. I needed to use ISO800 to get decent shutter speeds in the shade when the cloud was overhead, but once the sun broke out, I noticed I would be hitting the 1/8000s shutter limit, over exposing images. So I remembered to enable safety shift, and voila, problem solved. When the sun came out, the camera geared down my ISO to keep the exposure nice.
All pictures were taken with a 70-200 at F2.8. ISO's were 400-800
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. The off center focus points worked really well today in servo mode
6. This can't be comfortable
7.This was our MC for the morning. This was our pleasant "traffic cop".
8. This squirrel was running about all morning with peanuts in his mouth.
