what is the best and fastest lense for indoor basketball. low light- using a canon 70D
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01-14-2015 07:25 PM
I shoot high school basketball games in small low lit gyms. I use the Canon D70 with the Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS. This takes good pictures but I want sharper picture quality. I need a fast lense!! I have been looking at the Canon 70-200 f/2.8L IS II (think 70-200 will limit what I can capture in my lenses because of space. Also looking at 24-70 f/2.8 L II but have read that the auto focus is a bit slow. and last the Canon EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM, but I'm afraid to go to the f/3.5-5.6. Because thats what I have now.
Any advice would be great!
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01-15-2015 11:10 AM
Awesome! Thank you for the feedback and your personal experience.
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01-15-2015 02:41 PM
@ebiggs1 wrote:
By far your best buy is the 70-200mm f2.8 L IS USM II. It is the best lens on the planet. If it can't do it, it probably can't be done. You can rent one from LensRentals and give is a go first.
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The purchase of the 70-200mm f2.8 L IS USM II is a lens that will stay with you no matter what other gear (camera) you may decide to upgrade and it will do so for years. Sometimes it's best to buy the best.
May we all live long enough to hear you make those exact same comments about the 70-200mm f2.8 L IS USM III.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
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01-16-2015 08:35 AM
I hope so.
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01-14-2015 09:14 PM
I will say that the 135L, when attached to an Extender 1.4x III, has notably slower AF than the lens alone; perhaps too slow for basketball. I knew this before trying it, so it was not unexpected.
This reply is to give you something to start researching, and move your post back to the top of the column, not provide a firm answer, as I have not shot basketball images, and the 70-200mm 2.8L IS II remains on my wish list.
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01-14-2015 09:42 PM
Thank you for your input. I will continue to look at lenses.
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01-14-2015 10:32 PM
This video may help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ4KsGYDzgU
This is Scott Kelby - a well-known sports photographer and author of numerous popular photography books. In this video he talks about the gear most commonly used in sports photography. You'll notice that while he is mostly talking about outdoor / large-field sports, he does mention that for indoor sports (and I think he calls out basketball by name) he mentions a 70-200mm f/2.8 zoom lens is the key lens for "basketball".
Interestingly, at the time he made this video Scott was a Nikon shooter. Scott has since switched and today he's a Canon shooter.
The 70-200mm of choice would be the Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM II. it's not cheap, but if you can afford it, it is certainly the "best" of the 70-200 lenses.
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01-14-2015 10:35 PM
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01-14-2015 11:23 PM - edited 01-14-2015 11:24 PM
I have both and use both.
Canon 5d mk 4, Canon 6D, EF 70-200mm L f/2.8 IS mk2; EF 16-35 f/2.8 L mk. III; Sigma 35mm f/1.4 "Art" EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro; EF 85mm f/1.8; EF 1.4x extender mk. 3; EF 24-105 f/4 L; EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS; 3x Phottix Mitros+ speedlites
Why do so many people say "FER-tographer"? Do they take "fertographs"?
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01-16-2015 03:35 PM
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01-17-2015 10:18 AM
Again............
"I would certainly forget any notion of a fixed or prime lens for BB."
A prime will work of course but the nature of a BB game and the usually fixed location of the photographer makes a prime less than satisfactory.
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