Hi all, I'm off to Wimbledon this weekend with my A300 and Sony 18-250, mingling with the pro's with their pro cameras and multi-tude of pro lenses clagging around, as well as admiring all the Nikon shots around court 1 (unless they've changed).
Bearing in mind that I've got a good, but slow lens with a wide focal range, what sort of settings (metering etc) should I be looking at ?.
As usual any help/info would be greatly appreciated.
Anyone ?, Suppose those that know are currently busy on Centre Court [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
I would guess that you want to use speed priority, as there's plenty of action. I would guess at 1/500 but you'll have to experiment a little. Depends if you want everything frozen or some movement blur!
1/500 and maybe a little higher is what I intended, I like both really (all in focus/some blur), and will probably experiment, I was just after a few starting pointers and then fine tune from there, I'll probably be shooting between f/8-f/11, metering etc always seems to cause me concerns as does whether to use raw or jpeg (I don't want to use raw & jpeg together because of the buffer restrictions), and your right "experiment".
to catch the action you need to use shutter priority with an 200- 400 iso. Use aperture prioity if you want to have some blur. Remember no flash photography as I'm sure your photography is flash enough
LOL, you smooth talking b** *******Remember no flash photography as I'm sure your photography is flash enough
Wish I was, I work for a living
Many thanks for the info, will put it into practice tomorrow.
to freeze the racket and the ball, you will need 1/10000 sec or faster
as far as metering goes, just use evaluative /matrix, but keep checking the histogram
Simon
Many Thanks to those that replied, the settings helped, although only having a speed of 1/4000 was bit of a pain.
Hardest things I found were: initially trying to get the ball in the frame with the player like I do with football shots, and after I realized that I had to press the shutter 1/2 an hour before the ball arrived I was able to get in closerand the other; being sat in the middle of a crowd meant I was'nt keen to use burst mode and fire off a load of shots (I like my A300 but it's not the quietest camera on the market). Heads, Hat's and umbrella's also posed a few problems. Could'nt the amateurs have their own pit ?.
Settings used were shutter & aperture priority, 400-800 iso, custom wb, 1/400-1/4000, and over f/6.3
My Photo's
Depth of field ain't great and I am wondering if I go again whether a Bridge camera would be better.
Almost certainly not - probably slower all round, especially the EVF response, focusing speed, more limited range of apertures (and thus LESS depth of field), response to the shutter press, and (almost certainly) max frames/sec of not more than about 1.5 (if that). I stand to be corrected on any of the above, but that is my view!Depth of field ain't great and I am wondering if I go again whether a Bridge camera would be better.
John
Well, the smaller sensor in a bridge camera will actually give you MORE depth of field for the same aperture and field of view, but the noise (or noise reduction smearing) will be a lot worse. I agree with all your other points though.Almost certainly not - probably slower all round, especially the EVF response, focusing speed, more limited range of apertures (and thus LESS depth of field), response to the shutter press, and (almost certainly) max frames/sec of not more than about 1.5 (if that). I stand to be corrected on any of the above, but that is my view!
Well I would be pleased to have taken those Dave, some really great pictures despite been sat in the crowd.
Thanks for that, I am pleased with them and there are a couple of great shots, just a pity about the depth of field and bloody fast microscopic sized ball (a football now thats a proper ball
And I have to agree ref the bridge camera, probably not a good move, and more suited to snail racing.
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