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shutter priority - exposure 1/250 - F4.8 - 250mm - ISO 3200
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How good would the Nikon D90 with the
Nikon 70-300 f/4.5-5.6GED IF AF-S VR lens perform
indoors with no flash and fast moving action? You be the judge.
I recently had chance to shoot a relatives collage
basketball game at Maples Pavilion. He plays for
Utah
and was going to be my main subject obviously. Wishing I had the perfect indoor
2.8 telephoto zoom lens and knowing that wasn't going to happen I turned to my
trusty Nikon 70-300vr lens.
At first I started in aperture mode and wide opened
with my ISO set to 800. This setting was definitely not going to work very well
after experiencing a few shots that were blurry and plain bad. I then said
"what the heck lets go to shutter mode and bump the auto ISO up to a very rarely
used 3200". I instantly started getting better shots and the 70-300vr was
tracking good in continuous focus mode and getting pretty sharp shots. But you
know how looking at the little LCD screen of your shoots could look nothing
like that when you download them to your big computer and see your shots on
your monitor. I was worried that the noise from such a high ISO would rear its
ugly head once I got home and downloaded the photos. I was very surprised. I
probably ended up taking over a hundred RAW shoots and Id say 75% came out
good. The D90 handled the high ISO just as claimed. The 70-300vr performed
very well for such tough shooting conditions and being a lens most can still
afford. Now I'm not saying these shots were totally noise free at full size but they were deffenitly workable in my editor to end up pretty good shots.
Here are Some Shots with Settings.
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| shutter priority - exposure 1/250 - F4.5 - 90mm
- ISO 3200 |
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shutter priority - exposure 1/250 - F5.0 - 180mm - ISO 3200 |
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shutter priority - exposure 1/200 - F5.6 - 240mm - ISO 2800 |
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shutter priority - exposure 1/320 - F4.8 - 155mm - ISO 2800 |
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shutter priority - exposure 1/250 - F5.6 - 260mm - ISO 3200
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