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Archive 2008 · XTi upgrade

helios28
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p.1 #1 · XTi upgrade

I shoot HS sports with a Rebel XTi. It has served me well, once I got some fast glass, but I’d like to upgrade.
My main reason for wanting to upgrade is that my XTi hasn’t performed so well during football season. I use my 2.8 70-200L at 320 shutter speed w/o a flash at 1600ISO and have mixed results. I have a monopod and I’ve used an L bracket and hose clamps to mount my speedlite low for this coming Friday. I’d rather not use flash but I’m hoping it might increase my rate of ‘keepers.’
So what I want when I upgrade is a better AF- my XTi hunts in the dark- and better ISO performance- so that I don’t have to use a flash during football season.
Is a 40d going to offer a _big_ performance gain in those areas over my XTi? What about a 5d? Or a good used 4MP 1d? I’m afraid that the new 50d and the new 5d replacement are going to be out of my budget.
FPS isn’t as big a concern for me and I don’t think that losing the 1.6 crop factor would be either since, at least during football, I rarely go all the way to 200mm.
Thanks for any suggestions or help or information.

Sep 29, 2008 at 12:54 AM

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p.1 #2 · XTi upgrade

based on the review from member here the AI Servo performance ranging (best to worse) would be:
1D/Ds series
40D
5D

then again fps would be one big consideration for sports as you can miss many situation with low fps / one shot.

Sep 29, 2008 at 04:39 AM

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p.1 #3 · XTi upgrade

If sports is really the main use of the camera, and you want to maximize
performance and value for your money, then get a used 1D mkII, if you
can stretch your budget to around $2000.
This camera will give you excellent AI Servo tracking, and it has enough pixels.
The high ISO performance is undoubtedly better on a 1DIII, but you will not wish
to spend that much money.

Sep 29, 2008 at 06:21 AM


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