Canon Rebates (US / Fall 2007)

Guy Kisling posted a reply:

My sports shots are 95% women's indoor volleyball:



- No flash (typically not allowed)



- 1 Point AF



- If Vertical Shots, then I use AF Expansion Left/Right, which is then actually top to bottom. This seems to do well with acquiring and keeping a vertically oriented subject in focus.



- If Hortizontal Shots, then AF Expansion surrounding points.



- AI Servo



- Max Frame rate (8 fps on my Mark IIn, 10 fps on my Mark III)



- Aperatures wide enough to achieve 1/800th second. This is necessary to absolutely freeze the action.



- Check exposure compensation as lenses will differ indoors and need to be comp'd.



- Indoors f/2.8 is rarely fast enough to achieve 1/800th without cranking the ISO up to 3200 - 6400. f/2.0 usually requires ISO 3200.



- All shots are RAW. With my post-processing, I rarely worry about cranking ISO up to 3200. With the Mark III I have taken many excellent shots at 6400.



- Mark III in-camera noise reduction does work well but slows the buffering; a trade-off depending on shooting needs.



- Mark III highlight tone priority depending on ISO.



- "Matrix" metering (from the Nikon world, can't remember the Canon term!)



- Make sure to get the important "non-action" shots that capture the moment. We are often too focused on the beauty of a perfectly captured action shot. The viewers will often prefer an "emotional" shot to a action shot.



Happy shooting!