Nill Toulme
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My "new" 1D2N's shutter died with 39k on the odometer, so I'm back to shooting with the 1Ds2. :-(
Still finding the rhythm with the new bodies... neither of them AF's or AE's like my Mark II's did, it's kind of weird.
1Ds2, 400 f/2.8L IS, 1.4x. Complete match with EXIF and slideshow here.
Why, you may ask, was I shooting into those nasty backgrounds, backlit, with that ferocious glare coming off the cars in the parking lot? Well, because I was simultaneously shooting a U-13 game on the next field over, placed end to end. I got a little dizzy swinging back and forth.
Oh, and why are some of my horizons tilted? Because Capture One has a #$%^#^%$# bug in its arbitrary rotation that only affects the 1Ds2! Argh!
Complaining aside, I have to say I like shooting sports with the full frame body quite a lot. It lets me shoot looser because the cropping ability is just astonishing. The slower frame rate isn't bothering me at all. In fact it's forcing me to shoot in a more deliberate way instead of banging away like I have a tendency to do with the 1.25x bodies. I'd say my "keeper" rate has about doubled, in that I'm getting the same number of quality shots but shooting half as many. I had even cut the frame rate on the 1D2N back to 5fps in the short time I was using it before the shutter went belly up.
The one place where it clearly hurts though is on headers — I don't think I'll get nearly as many "compression" shots at 4fps. ;-)
The DOF is even skinnier on the full frame, and I might be losing a few more shots to soft focus as a result, but my initial impression is that's more than offset by the additional cropping room.
The other thing of course is that the files are gigantic, so download time is a lot longer and processing time is also affected somewhat.
Nill
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www.toulme.net
Still finding the rhythm with the new bodies... neither of them AF's or AE's like my Mark II's did, it's kind of weird.
1Ds2, 400 f/2.8L IS, 1.4x. Complete match with EXIF and slideshow here.
Why, you may ask, was I shooting into those nasty backgrounds, backlit, with that ferocious glare coming off the cars in the parking lot? Well, because I was simultaneously shooting a U-13 game on the next field over, placed end to end. I got a little dizzy swinging back and forth.
Oh, and why are some of my horizons tilted? Because Capture One has a #$%^#^%$# bug in its arbitrary rotation that only affects the 1Ds2! Argh!
Complaining aside, I have to say I like shooting sports with the full frame body quite a lot. It lets me shoot looser because the cropping ability is just astonishing. The slower frame rate isn't bothering me at all. In fact it's forcing me to shoot in a more deliberate way instead of banging away like I have a tendency to do with the 1.25x bodies. I'd say my "keeper" rate has about doubled, in that I'm getting the same number of quality shots but shooting half as many. I had even cut the frame rate on the 1D2N back to 5fps in the short time I was using it before the shutter went belly up.
The one place where it clearly hurts though is on headers — I don't think I'll get nearly as many "compression" shots at 4fps. ;-)
The DOF is even skinnier on the full frame, and I might be losing a few more shots to soft focus as a result, but my initial impression is that's more than offset by the additional cropping room.
The other thing of course is that the files are gigantic, so download time is a lot longer and processing time is also affected somewhat.
Nill
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www.toulme.net