Busy Lacrosse weekend

oldtime · March 4, 2008

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wmstumme · March 4, 2008

Stunning!! Great color, clarity and action!

Favorites are either 8 or 11--but all are great!

KED · March 4, 2008

Amazing
Almost 3-D in their sharpness. You are really in the golden triangle for D-I lax shooting!

oldtime · March 5, 2008

wmstumme wrote:

Stunning!! Great color, clarity and action!

Favorites are either 8 or 11--but all are great!

Thanks for the comments Will

oldtime · March 5, 2008

KED wrote:

Almost 3-D in their sharpness. You are really in the golden triangle for D-I lax shooting!

Thanks-- Second outing with D300 and the Sigma I like this combo ALOT

KED · March 5, 2008

oldtime wrote:

Thanks-- Second outing with D300 and the Sigma I like this combo ALOT

Which Sigma? I am loving the long lenses for lax (having always preferred the 70-200 before). Sometimes the fixed focal length on mine is difficult to deal with and costs me a good shot here and there, but under no circumstances am I purchasing a longer zoom. No way. That's it. No mas. I'm done. Seriously.

ASkip · March 6, 2008

oldtime wrote:

Thanks-- Second outing with D300 and the Sigma I like this combo ALOT

Ooh a D300... Can I ask a question? I just got my D300 yesterday and dragged it out to the night time girls soccer game. I wasn't sure what focus type to choose, and I had about 2 minutes to read the book. So I picked the fanciest sounding one 51pt 3-D, thinking that has to be the most accurate. but I found that I had a lot of shots that were totally out of focus, way more than usual with my D200 (which I just kept on single point, continuous focus mode with the lock time set to short).
Friday is the big first Lax game of the season for the high school team and I can't mess it up like I did the soccer game. can I ask what you have your focus controls set to? Then I'm sure my pictures will be almost a fraction as good as yours.
Thanks, from the Gobi desert of D-I lax.

oldtime · March 6, 2008

ASkip wrote:

Ooh a D300... Can I ask a question? I just got my D300 yesterday and dragged it out to the night time girls soccer game. I wasn't sure what focus type to choose, and I had about 2 minutes to read the book. So I picked the fanciest sounding one 51pt 3-D, thinking that has to be the most accurate. but I found that I had a lot of shots that were totally out of focus, way more than usual with my D200 (which I just kept on single point, continuous focus mode with the lock time set to short).
Friday is the big first Lax game of the season for the high school team and I can't mess it up like I did the soccer game. can I ask what you have your focus controls set to? Then I'm sure my pictures will be almost a fraction as good as yours.
Thanks, from the Gobi desert of D-I lax.

I set focus to 21pt and focus selector on back of camera at center point that way I could choose which point I wanted on the fly
What lens are you using????
Good luck with your game

ASkip · March 6, 2008

oldtime wrote:

I set focus to 21pt and focus selector on back of camera at center point that way I could choose which point I wanted on the fly
What lens are you using????
Good luck with your game

Thanks! I'll try that. For these night games I use my Nikon 300mm/f2.8
Can't wait for the weekend to start!

Busy Lacrosse weekend

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