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Shooting surfing with my new / used 7d mark 2 ?
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Later a lot of research reviews and reviews I bought a new Sigma 100 – 400 mm 5.6. I figured with my ingather the 150 – 600 mm equivalent I’d accept the reach I needed. Well-nigh of the photos I’ll be taking are in daylight so the 5.6 would be fine. I actually know how to dial in the T2i from years of shooting in poorly lit gyms, so my start shots with the 100-400 mm on my T2i were pretty practiced. SOME were good… but getting the single focal point locked in at 400 mm was a little tricky. Plus the fps was ho-hum. The subject surfer would change management and I wouldn’t get the transition. Big gaps on the continuous fast activeness.
I found a 7d marking ii in good shape, well cared for, and about one-half shutter life for a off-white price. Okay… this is a seriously better camera than I’thou used to. A piddling intimidated, merely not totally lost in shooting manual. My T2i didn’t accept 6 tracking sensitivity modes and and then many AF options.
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Shooting surfing volition be more often than not at 400 mm because it’s a reef intermission that’southward way out. I use a mono pod. With this prepare what would be the best AF settings? ISO? Shutter Speed? Should I get a 1.4x or two.0x teleconverter? Do I really need a tripod?
Hither are a few sample shots. 1 at 100 mm and one a 400 mm.
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It’ll accept a while to get dialed in the mode you like it. The 150-600 is a great focal range, especially with surfers.
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I must do more surf photography as I am at the beach most of the time anyway.
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Honestly for settings, since surfing is a daylight sport, I would use a shutter speed of over i/1000 and use wide open apertures if possible with the ISO completing the exposure triangle.
600mm effective on that lens should be pretty expert every bit it is. I wouldn’t get a 2x TC because the 2 stops of light you loose could very well cause bug with the car focus. Now the ane.4x TC might be something to look at since it volition then exist a 1200mm f/8 lens. Simply honestly, I’d try it at 600 to see what that does for yous for a while before paying the $300-400 for the TC.
One more annotation to that, if you get, be sure to get only the Catechism ane.4x TC version 3. The others aren’t that good. (In all fairness, I don’t know nearly the Sigma TC’s)
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don’t knock the 150-600 until y’all endeavor information technology.
A pro photographer I know who has taken surfing pic’due south of me (I paid for them) has the 150 -600 on a 7D marking ii. I accept lots of examples of how skillful it is, and he likes it. He shoots motocross with it mostly. I almost bought a 70 – 200 2.8. It’s a not bad lens merely it didn’t quite take the reach I wanted. This 100 – 400 is a good range and I paid $7oo new. It’south lite enough to comfortably shoot handheld. The Sigma 150 – 600 is most $850 used and you actually demand a tripod with it.
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