Switching focus points is not really an option.The game is much too fast for this. The biggest visible difference between amateur and pro football players (or kids and adults) is the speed! I agree to what you are saying about focal length. A 28-300 f. 2.8 would be great :-) But I guess it's better to just shoot what's in front of you (closest half of the field).
Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk +45 56 63 77 11 +45 23 43 85 77 Skype: jensbladt248 -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Bruce Dayton Sendt: 3. april 2007 06:37 Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Emne: Re: GOSE: My first soccer game Thanks for sharing the information. Hopefully you are aware that the focus point selection is independent of AF-S or AF-C. You can choose a single AF point and then use AF-C. Or maybe you were having problems with needing different points rapidly and couldn't switch them fast enough and the All points missed too many times? I don't shoot soccer so much - and if I do, it is younger kids up to teens. I have tended to use a medium/long zoom and just miss the really close shots or go for a less than full body. Sometimes just a tight shot can be pretty cool. Certainly one problem is that the other side of the field could use about a 300 or so and the near side could use about a 35. Big range. I look forward to your next shoot. -- Best regards, Bruce Sunday, April 1, 2007, 11:27:25 PM, you wrote: JB> Hello Bruce - thanks for noticing and answering.. JB> You have got a very good point about hte DOF, Bruce. JB> I guess, I was not comfident enough, that I could focus correctly enought to JB> go down to F.3.5-4.5. JB> I shot all shots at F. 5.6 - F8. Basically I used Tv and chose 1/1250 or JB> 1/1000 sec's. JB> I used AF most of the time (mostly not fast enough). I tried AF-C, but that JB> didin't work - too many optional focus points - the camera kept focusing at JB> the background (the sponsor add). JB> Manual foucs didn'¨t work either - the movemnets of the players was too JB> unpredictable. (Or I am out of prctice). JB> So, I finally settled for AF-S. JB> Naturally I used my true everyday servant - my monopod! JB> I had problems with lenses - I had to change between 28-70mm, and 80-200mm JB> frequently. JB> I did notice that the pro's at the site usded two cameras, for that very JB> same reason. JB> I guess that the best focal length for a soccer game would be something like JB> 35-150mm or even 28-180mm. It seems to me Pentax is missing a lens in this JB> range. The DA 50-200mm gets close, though. But for indoor ball games this JB> would be too slow. JB> Sigma males a 50-150mm F. 2.8. Tokina makes a 50-135mm F. 2.8 - both of JB> which wouls be just about suitable for such work. I gues my F1:4/45-125mm JB> would be fine great if it had AF! I guess it's long focusing turns will be JB> a problem, if used with MF. JB> I'm going to shoot annother soccer game on thursday. I guess I'll be JB> bringing the 45-125mm AND two cameras - just in case :-) JB> Which lens do you guys use for ball games? JB> Jens Bladt JB> http://www.jensbladt.dk JB> +45 56 63 77 11 JB> +45 23 43 85 77 JB> Skype: jensbladt248 JB> -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- JB> Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Bruce JB> Dayton JB> Sendt: 2. april 2007 02:20 JB> Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List JB> Emne: Re: GOSE: My first soccer game JB> Hello Jens, JB> Good shots of the action. You managed to catch some pretty good JB> moments. The only thing that stood out to me a bit was that the DOF JB> was quite wide. For some shots, that worked pretty well, but for JB> some, it seemed that there was a lot of background competing for my JB> attention. JB> I would be very interested if you would go in to some detail on how JB> you shot this - camera, lens, techniques (metering, AF, etc). For JB> being out of practice, you done well. JB> -- JB> Bruce JB> Sunday, April 1, 2007, 3:47:34 PM, you wrote: JB>> My home town is going to build a new football stadium. JB>> So, the planning department (that's where I work) wants photographs from JB> the JB>> old one - for a public meeting on the subject. JB>> I haven't photographed a real soccer game since the early 1980'ies - JB> before JB>> Auto Focus was common. JB>> I was surprised how difficult it was :-) JB>> Hopefully I'll do a little better next time... JB>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/sets/72157600041128273/show/ JB>> Regards JB>> Jens Bladt JB>> http://www.jensbladt.dk JB>> -- JB>> No virus found in this outgoing message. JB>> Checked by AVG Free Edition. JB>> Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.24/741 - Release Date: JB> 03/31/2007 JB>> 20:54 JB> -- JB> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List JB> PDML@pdml.net JB> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net JB> -- JB> No virus found in this incoming message. JB> Checked by AVG Free Edition. JB> Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.24/741 - Release Date: 03/31/2007 JB> 20:54 JB> -- JB> No virus found in this outgoing message. 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