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*daacon* · 10-09-2007, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by Arpe

Practice some manual focusing too. If it turns out auto is no good, you'll need it.
Not exactly knowing how well lit these ice hockey arenas are, I doubt the bigma will be fast enough, I would have thought 2.8 would be minimum speed, maybe even take a 50mm/1.4 if you have one. That shouldn't be too bad as I presume you are sideline. Maybe in the future you get a 1.4x and stick that on a 50/1.4, so at least you'll end up with a 70/2.0.

Yes I was pratcing funny you should mention that. HaHa - well in a perfect world yes I would have a 70-200 f2.8, 300 f2.8 and 600mm f4Primes

The Bigma may be too slow but I am going to give it a go. I do have my Tamron 28-75 f2.8 not sure that will be long enough. I did see some shots at f4.5 that looked pretty resonable (at about 135mm) so at that lenght I am looking at f5.6 at best case a little slower but not too bad.

I will have to do with what I have looking forward to the challenge.

10-09-2007, 06:33 PM	#5
daacon Site Supporter Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Alberta,Canada Gallery Photos: 7 Posts: 5,520	Originally Posted by Arpe Practice some manual focusing too. If it turns out auto is no good, you'll need it. Not exactly knowing how well lit these ice hockey arenas are, I doubt the bigma will be fast enough, I would have thought 2.8 would be minimum speed, maybe even take a 50mm/1.4 if you have one. That shouldn't be too bad as I presume you are sideline. Maybe in the future you get a 1.4x and stick that on a 50/1.4, so at least you'll end up with a 70/2.0. Yes I was pratcing funny you should mention that. HaHa - well in a perfect world yes I would have a 70-200 f2.8, 300 f2.8 and 600mm f4Primes The Bigma may be too slow but I am going to give it a go. I do have my Tamron 28-75 f2.8 not sure that will be long enough. I did see some shots at f4.5 that looked pretty resonable (at about 135mm) so at that lenght I am looking at f5.6 at best case a little slower but not too bad. I will have to do with what I have looking forward to the challenge. __________________ <=== Dave ===> istD, K10D, PENTAX AF-540FGZ, F-Remote, BG-2 Battery Grip Pentax DA 10-17 f3.5-4.5, DA 12-24 f4, DA* 16-50 f2.8, DA* 50-135 f2.8, SMC-F 50mm f1.7, DA 55-300 f4-5.8 Tamron 28-75 f2.8, 18-250 f3.5-6.3 Sigma 50-500 f4-6.3 "BIGMA", 105mm f2.8 EX DG MACRO Last edited by daacon; 10-09-2007 at 07:07 PM..