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Subject: [Leica] IMG: wary sports photographer
From: abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:38:44 -0700
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Hi Ted,

That?s a Canon 70-200mm f2.8L lens I?m pretty sure. I see them frequently 
court side along with the 28-70 f2.8L lens.

But  you?re right - the place wasn?t filled with photographers. Mostly the 
folks I see are shooting with Nikons these days with WiFi adaptors to shoot 
images directly to their computers and possibly out the network. There will 
be an array of cameras attached to the backboards, triggered remotely or 
with proximity sensors as well. Autofocus of course.

I?ll take some gear shots during the finals to give you and idea of what the 
well-heeled sports photog carries to basketball games these days. I can?t 
imagine what the national championship game is like. Possibly played in 
near-total darkness because the cameras have sucked up all the light.

Adam

On Mar 12, 2014, at 3:55 PM, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote:

> Hi Adam,
> If the light sort of circular cylinder object under her hands is a lens 
> she's going to shoot basket ball with? Then she's never shot basketball 
> before! It's way too long unless she sits at one end of the floor shooting 
> the opposite end hoop???????
> 
> And or she's a rookie and still learning? Anybody have any idea how long 
> this lens might be??????
> cheers,
> cheers
> Dr. ted
> . 



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