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Best Lens for Sports Photography

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JNR
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Re: Best Lens for Sports Photography

nnowak wrote:

The Barn may be a 95 year old stadium (almost), but the lighting is certainly not 95 years old. As a BIG 10 NCAA school, light levels are high enough to support broadcast TV. Not only are most high school gyms nowhere near this bright, or evenly lit, they are also often using lower quality lights with terrible CRI's that make white balance a real challenge.

Yeah, the white floor especially helps with spreading the light compared to the old yellow flooring. The OP should for sure plan to be processing from raw... if totally on deadline and they need JPEGs OOC, then we are talking about needing somewhat faster lenses. CRI is pretty bad in all gyms, but some are truly awful. I just assumed he was going to have a bit of time for processing... or will need to get a knack for manual WB (also not easy if you're new at it).

You'll just have to trust me that the Barn is still lower light than most college gyms, and not more than a stop better than a typical high school gym. We don't have much detail, so this is speculative for all of us.

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