Valpo Men's Basketball w/ the 5D Mark II
I don't know if my 40D will come out next game, I guess not. Higher frames per second is fun, but higher ISO that is clean, kicks butt on that any day of the week.
The 5D2 worked like a CHAMP last night at the basketball games I photographed. I shot with it on ISO 4,000 at 1/800 f2.8 w/ my 70-200 f2.8/L IS USM. I put it in center point AI servo for focus, and enabled the AF expansion in custom settings so that the 6 helper points will work during AI server center point focus. See below for examples. PS- since Lightroom won't open the RAW's, I shot RAW + JPG, and the files you see below are from the JPGs which were barely touched at all. For the most part the shots were great straight from the camera!
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More are here: http://photos.cathoffman.com/gallery/6803313_pRKBY
Comments and feedback welcomed as usual!
The 5D2 worked like a CHAMP last night at the basketball games I photographed. I shot with it on ISO 4,000 at 1/800 f2.8 w/ my 70-200 f2.8/L IS USM. I put it in center point AI servo for focus, and enabled the AF expansion in custom settings so that the 6 helper points will work during AI server center point focus. See below for examples. PS- since Lightroom won't open the RAW's, I shot RAW + JPG, and the files you see below are from the JPGs which were barely touched at all. For the most part the shots were great straight from the camera!
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More are here: http://photos.cathoffman.com/gallery/6803313_pRKBY
Comments and feedback welcomed as usual!
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I agree. Vast improvement in only one year. Very well done.
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Thanks for the feedback everyone!
I don't know about 1/2000th but I do know about 1/200, and no in pitch dark it won't be clean, but it's still amazing I could actually focus in and take the shot regardless. The shot below was taken during the black out when they only put the spotlight on to announce the starting line up. 1/200 f2.8 ISO 25,600 (the highest the 5D2 will go). Taken from the other side of the court. As you can see, rather noisy, but hey, I got a shot in the dark, cool!
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All the shots are really impressive and even that last one you posted would look good in a newpaper in b/w and I bet Nobody else there was able to anything in that lighting.
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It is funny because last year at this time
She was shooting with XTi and a 70-200 F/4
and I was an XT and 70-200 F/4
We come back from december break she has the Sigma 2.8 70-200 and I had gone 70-200 F/2.8L IS
She was excited to show me her new Sigma and then realized that I had upgraded... It was a funny moment.
I come to this basketball game (where the pictures are) and she has the Mark 2 ... I was VERY jealous haha!
I suggested she should post these up here to make people who shoot primarily non-sports but sometimes sports be confident the 5d2's AF would keep up. She was getting LOTS of in-focus % shots... I am using the 30D and it is funny to see the difference. makes me want some Full Frame action on the 70-200...
yep.. good times
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Haven't decided yet, for now I like the idea of having the extra 1.6x reach on the other body... and the possibility of faster FPS if needed... but we'll see where reality takes me. Plus I have no idea if the original 5D focuses this nicely or not in this type of setting. Granted my primary source of photography income in weddings, not sports, so that will likely rule my ultimate decisions. For now though I'm quite happy where I'm at and both are under accidental warranties for like 3-4 years so I can keep both the 40D and 5D2 in good working order no matter what may come.
That was more or less the point of this exercise. 1) Test the 5D2 out and see if holds up and 2) if it holds up, show other people that yes, it can do sports! (since many have not called it a sports camera).
And hence the post
This camera just continues to surprise me with what it's capable of and so I eagerly keep shooting at every opportunity to push it to it's limits!
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A colleague and I have been discussing the merits of fps vs. clean high iso...... and I don't know what would win!
I want a 1dMkIIN with the clean high ISO of this 5dMkII. How long do you think I'll have to wait?
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I imagine whenever a 1D Mark IV comes out it will have the amazingness that everyone wants... but that no one can afford.
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