Re: Help if you can

"Wolfgang Weisselberg" <ozcvgtt02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Skip <shadowcatcher@xxxxxxx> wrote:
"Wolfgang Weisselberg" <ozcvgtt02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
Skip <shadowcatcher@xxxxxxx> wrote:

What you plan to spend is important to know. The Canon 30D fires at 5
=
fps for 60 frames,

JPEG only, mind! If you have a good WB setting and exact enough
exposure, JPEG is fine, if you may want or need to adjust in that
area, (e.g. you use ISO 1600 and underexpose for 1 or 2 stops
(effectively ISO 3200/6400)) you probably want RAW, in which case
you have far less buffer.

Well, of course JPEG only. Sheesh, if you want RAW and 3 fps with a
reasonable buffer, you're going to be looking at a whole lot more money.

Well, if you want JPEG and 3fps ... a Contax SL300RT* will do
more than 60 frames, till your card is full.

is 8mp and can be combined with a 70-200 f2.8L IS to =
get what you want.

A very good, but expensive, large and heavy lens. I love mine.
Works well with a Kenko Pro 300DG 1.4x konverter and Ok enough
at the long end with the 2x konverter.

Yeah, but now you're looking at an f4 or 5.6 lens, dependant on
converter,
and skating dangerously close to a lens that is too slow for the poor
lighting in most hockey rinks.

Well, go ahead and buy a 300mm f/2.8 or 400mm f/2.8. I'd love
to have one, too. However, $3800 or $6500 is quite a bit more
dough than $1700 + $200 + $220, and size and weight may or may not
be a problem, depending on your use. And buy yet another body,
lest you need to switch between the lenses and loose many shots.

And while you are at it, a fast 600mm wouldn't be amiss
either --- don't forget a _sturdy_ monopod. :->

On the other hand, IS is not going to help much with fast motions,
and very little with very fast motions (i.e. a fast moving puck),

It's not going to help at all with subject motion, slow, fast or very
fast.

If the subject motion blur is acceptable with noticably slower
speeds than 1/f seconds (assuming you can hold 1/f seconds without
IS), the IS will help. Additionally, the IS will steady the
viewfinder picture.

-Wolfgang

Wolfgang, that was the point, he's not going to get a rig that will shoot
3/4 body shots from across a distance like that of a hockey rink in the
lighting available in said rink with movement for the price he wants.
And rentals are available.
IS will _not_ help with subject motion blur. Additionally, an exposure of 1
sec will produce some interesting images of a hockey game, I'm sure, but I'm
equally sure that such images are not what the OP has in mind...

--
Skip Middleton
www.shadowcatcherimagery.com
www.pbase.com/skipm


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