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amandagillen wrote:
Im a Nikon user and in the market for a new camera. I am looking at Nikon D750 FX vs the new D500 DX that is being released. I am just a mom with 4 kids who loves taking sports pictures. High School Football is by far my first love. I would be shooting in low light between the end zone and 30 yard lines (where its pretty dark on our field) so I need a camera that is great with nt shooting, low noise for high ISO. I would also be shooting baseball and basketball. I started out just using my Nikon D3300 with Nikon 70-200 2.8. So I know anything will be an upgrade.
Here is my dilemma......
Is FX or DX really better for sports shooting
If I go with the 750 FX I would definitely need to get bigger glass.....either Nikon 300 or Sigma 120-300.
If I go with 500 DX I MAY be Ok with the current 70-200? but prob still want to upgrade?
Can anyone help a mom out? Im not making money doing this. Just have 4 kids and Im an avid sports shooter. Of course I love taking pics of them in any setting too tho. ...Show more →
Amanda:
It all depends on what you are photographing, your budget and how much weight you are willing to carry.
I do prefer the full frame cameras since my business also involves school pictures, corporate photography, commercial/ senior/family portraits plus team photos and many times you need to be as wide as possible due to space.
The D700, D3, D3s, D4 and 1Dx have been my go-to cameras for years because a pro-quality DX body wasn't available in Nikon mount. The 300s never performed as well as I had hoped, given the limited high ISO performance and the Canon 1D Mark III also maxed out @ ISO 6400 so it was unusable under most indoor and outdoors-at-night lighting.
The downside to FX is that you lose the crop factor so your 200 is a 200 as opposed to it being a 300 on a DX body and that can be a real problem for football and baseball but not so much for basketball since you are so much closer to the action
I have used the D750 and it is an excellent camera but is way too small for me and doesn't feel as ruggedly built as the D700 or D300s that I still own. For some, the smaller size of the D750 may be a positive so that is just my opinion but the D750 just didn't strike me as a camera that would be very durable.
The D500 sounds like it would be the ultimate sports shooting camera at a fraction of the cost of a D5 and I can't wait to test drive one. The D5/D500 combo may have a number of Canon shooters looking twice.
If it were me, I'd wait on the D500 and use your 70-200 for sports and if you need more reach, the Nikon 300 f/2.8 would be excellent for football and baseball and opposite hoop basketball action.
I use a 400 f/2.8 for football and soccer on a full frame body so that 300 f/2.8 would be equivalent to a 450 f/2.8 on the D500 with, what is speculated, the D5 AF and greatly improved high ISO performance plus 10 frames per second.
Here are some full frame examples,
Good luck with your decision and enjoy photographing your children,
Lee
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