Well, I too want a TS so I'm excited to know someone who is buying one. I can't decide between the 24 and the 45 although I'm guessing why you want a 24 and that makes a lot of sense.
I wish I could cry foul due to misleading statements about airshows...
I have sticks but not even 1/4 of a game but I hear Tracey is pretty good.
I dont know about you guys but I'm extremely excited for the new canon anouncements.. . I really think the 50D and a 5d Mark II are both in order. I'm thinking the 50D will really be around 1000- 1200 and no more which could be a really viable camera for me. I'm also thinking the 5d mark 2 could come in around 2,000 and really be a nice upgrade over the existing 5d. Either way I definitely feel like in 3 short months i've taught myself so much about photography that i've hit the ceiling of my 450d/XSi body and need to add a higher end body into the mix.
Thanks, Dave...I am in a slightly more used price range
I am guessing the highly anticipated 5DII will debut at more around $3500...Also, don't underestimate the usefulness of the 40D...They can be had for a song (I know, because I sold mine for that) and do just about everything you could need a camera to do. The other best bang for the buck is a Mark II...What an awesome camera at any price.
tlong - may i steer you toward the 200-400 Nikor? My friend Rodolfo has one and I'm really impressed with the shots he gets with his D300 and that lens. Tack sharp - fast enough and a great focal range. Plus it doesn't weigh a ton. Don't know if its fast enough for night sports - but Rodolfo can get the rivets on the dark side of a black airplane flying 350mph across a brightly lit sun filled sky at 1/125th.
Of course - with the Nikon's great low light abilities - even a slower lens shouldn't be a problem!
Mark Alexander wrote:
I wish I could cry foul due to misleading statements about airshows...
I have sticks but not even 1/4 of a game but I hear Tracey is pretty good.
Mark
What was misleading? I said Oshkosh was going to be a major determining factor. I went, I shot and I determined. I got better keeper rate with the Mark III than the 1Ds Mark III - mostly due to the slow buffer and always having to put it down and grab the MIII. Although the best photo quality so far came from the 1Ds M III. The IDs M II also delivered great results - enough so to fit into my budget as the 1DsMIII does not.
If I misled anyone - i am sorry - i'm just skipping through life, living out my dream... hmmmm something about that just doesn't sound right... I'm just sliding bare assed down the razor blade of life, living out my dream... - yea thats the ticket!
JB, I have revisited a few older pics from earlier in the month. I 've finally picked up some photoshop skills today, and i was hoping u could tell me whether you think they "pop" and perhaps whether i'm moving in the right direction
Well - I'm no pro at this or anything but I assume the more contrasty ones are the new pop as opposed to the less contrasty ones being the old pop?
Looks like the shoulders are about to pop for sure. I like the contrast but it may be a bit over the top - i am assuming theses are what you're referring to. They certainly have pop - what they mis is shadow detail. The age old adage for sport photography is "eyes and balls" - so the second image is a great shot that needs to keep the expression relevant.
I tend to get very heavy handed sometimes with over saturating and trying to get more pop and the textbook way to do it works most times. But sometimes its best to throttle it back just a little. You can improve many shots by what you crop out more than what you make pop. Your first shot should be cropped down to just the players... maybe the ballboy's head since he is in the focus range and it would look funny to have a headless person in the shot. That's where big glass really makes a difference - he would have blended into the background with big glass wide open. Shoot - even the 100-400 on the long end might have rendered the ballboy as absent.
My two cents aren't really worth much - ask Tracey - or Mark - they are really good at this stuff!
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