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 p.1 #15 · Fast Focus- Pro body, 50d, Nikon d300? | |
josh paris wrote:
Kelly Phillips wrote:
You say that you are just starting out on soccer. Sports like this are pretty hard to shoot. The action is fast so it takes some practice. I don't see any way in the world why you would be getting more keepers using "one shot" over "servo" with action. I am also using a 70-200 and have very few problems other than me just not being quick enough sometimes. Make sure you have your "IS" turned off when shooting sports. Also if your shooting at night, you will miss more shots because of the autofocus. The * button focus made the most difference in the number of keepers that I get. I would really encourage you to practice more before you give up on your 30D, unless you have the money to spend.
Thank you- I will try shooting with the IS OFF...never done that before, but it makes sense and my shutter speed in certainly high enough.
Servo has just been too slow to capture the action...... so what is the rate of keeper I should expect ??
I'll shoot between 75-150 shots at a game and get maybe 7-20 shots that are good(being both content and clarity of the the shot)... but I get another 10-20 shots where I looking at them and going.."wow if only a millisecond of focus that would have be amazing"...sometimes with just fuzzy edges other just plain blurry>
strange that single focus works better than AI servo for you, very, very few people shoot soccer that way....
keep IS off, it messes with tracking soccer and sometimes even seems to slow AI Servo focus.
you need to take more pics per game, don't be afraid to take at least 2-3x more.
don't expect every other shot to be a keeper
40d (50d) would focus more quickly.
otoh it is more sensitive to jumping to the background so you need to be even MORE careful with yor tracking (it does recover faster from mistakes though)
It does have more fps and speedier feeling shutter/mirror and a buffer large enough to nicely handle shooting RAW (or RAW+JPG).
At its best the 40D defintely does better (but at its worst it can be noticeably worse than the 20D) and overall it's maybe avged out to roughly the same.
for whatever reason, I have found the 40d to be very touchy depending upon lighting conditions, for whatever reason brilliant 1pm sun and bright uniforms gives it TERRIBLE fits, its performs horribly at times. Yet shoot soccer at 5-7PM and it sometimes does almost as well as a 1dmkii.
it seems to do wildly differently depending upon the light, where the 20d and 1dmkii (although troubled at times by certain conditions) seems to be thrown off kilter by fewer types of lighting and to less varying degrees.
for whatever reason the more intense the heat and sun the more my 40D seems to backfocus, same for the more powerful the backlighting, maybe if they had given it MF adjustment I could do a little better by picking different amounts for different lighting. Kind of ridiculous but what can I say, this is what it appears to be doing. Anyway, it doesn't allow MF adjustment so it has been anywhere from extreme hit to extreme miss.
Out of all the Canon bodies out there now, the least complaints for sports appear to be heard from the 1DMkIIn and second least from 1DMkII users. Of course no camera is perfect and you technique can help or hinder it. For something like volleyball (low-light, indoor, fast snap focus) the 1DMkIII appears to have the least complaints at this point. At least these are my impressions, perhaps they are not valid.
anyway, for what that is worth and maybe these experiences are not universal....
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