Originally posted by cb750r hey I'm going to see the womens snowboard cross events and I can rent a 50-135mm
I have a da50-200mm and a FAJ 75-300mm
I find my DA has trouble getting a focus lock at infinity, and don't want to miss shots because it refuses to fire a shot, and I've never been impressed with anything I shoot with the FAJ. So my thought was to rent a 70-200 or a longer but the best I can get is the DA 50-135mm or a bigma!
Thoughts?
50-135 has a long travel focus and is not too fast for sport, but i use my 50-135 very successfully on MTB downhill sport events. Usually i use aperture above 5.6 to compensate short DOF and slow focus. I have best results when use prefocused techniques with my pentax DSLR for sport.