Canon SL2/200D for sports/action shooting (surfing)

ohaya wrote:

R2D2,

The reason I am going to try the dot sight, in particular, is that I've been testing this past year, on a gimbal, and from that testing, I get much less motion blur when I shoot using the dot sight vs. the EVF viewfinder.

That (very slight motion blur) was something I noticed when I was culling the images from shooting in the previous season (with tripod but no gimbal), when using the EVF, even shooting as high as 1/2000, in some cases, and I also noticed that when we got back home with the gimbal and static targets.

I am not quite sure why, but I do know that I have some physical problems with steadiness, so those might be the reason, but I notice that when I use the dot sight, I get much less motion blur.

This year, I am also trying to teach myself to shoot using back-button focus/BBF, so I am thinking that if I can try use that (BBF) together with depth-of-field then maybe the SL2/200D might be "ok enough" even if the auto-focus speed is not the greatest, it might be good enough as a backup/native EF/EFS-mount camera.

We are already carrying enough stuff (we spend 3 months in a different place where I am doing the shooting, so we have to carry a bunch of stuff on the flights to/from), and we are both getting older, so I don't really want to carry a large DSLR.

Thanks,

Jim

I have the SL2 and I shot fast moving RC cars and it worked out ok, you just got to learn what method works best for you with it for action shots.