To shoot or not to shoot.....with IS

I have my second button set for F4, 400ISO,AV +2/3, Al Servo, center point. Works great for shooting front and back lit at the same time.

lespaulowner wrote in post #9124170
Forgive me for asking this question but...How does IS interfere with sports shooing?

When the IS mechanism first spulls up, there is vibration which could affect the sharpness and clarity of the image but once it's running it will help maintain the stability of the frame of light from the lens on the sensor when shooting at lower shutter speeds.

At high shutter speeds, IS is not really of any help and may have the ever so slightest affect on image sharpness and eats battery like crazy.

For me, I've found IS to be of great help since I do a lot of hand-held low light shooting at lower shutter speeds (below 1/200).

lespaulowner wrote in post #9124170
Forgive me for asking this question but...How does IS interfere with sports shooing?

lespaulowner wrote in post #9124226
I am just wondering because I would possibly like to use the 70-200 for weddings, portraits, etc.

So, do you consider weddings sports shooting?

For me, the main negative for sports shooting (of IS) is battery drain. Shooting all day with my 1DMkII (or with a grip on one of my other camera bodies) I can usually just make it to the end of the day with out changing batteries. But I am shooting all day in servo mode. No way I could do that if I were using IS. But as has been stated I am always shooting at a high shutter speed so IS would not benefit me any way.

Outdoors I shoot with a 70-200 F/4 and indoors with a 100 F/2, neither of which has IS.

Some say that IS also takes a bit to lock in and therefor slows AF but I have never tested that. Doesn't matter.

ps. Do you own a Les Paul?

matonanjin wrote in post #9128459
So, do you consider weddings sports shooting?

For me, the main negative for sports shooting (of IS) is battery drain. Shooting all day with my 1DMkII (or with a grip on one of my other camera bodies) I can usually just make it to the end of the day with out changing batteries. But I am shooting all day in servo mode. No way I could do that if I were using IS. But as has been stated I am always shooting at a high shutter speed so IS would not benefit me any way.

Outdoors I shoot with a 70-200 F/4 and indoors with a 100 F/2, neither of which has IS.

Some say that IS also takes a bit to lock in and therefor slows AF but I have never tested that. Doesn't matter.

ps. Do you own a Les Paul?

I like to think I would use the 70-200 for other than sports.


Yup to owning the les paul. I bought it when I was in Boston vacationing by myself.

Antonio, I use the 70-200 2.8 IS all the time for events and concerts and weddings. I turn the IS on and don't understand why that would be a problem. It's the sharpest zoom out there f2.8, wide open. Dark concert halls and churches are a problem without it.

For a certain 70-300mm IS USM, the image stabilization is always turned on.

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