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Action shots - Faster lens options (EF preferred) and camera software settings

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Re: Action shots - Faster lens options (EF preferred) and camera software settings

EscVelocity wrote:

Your thoughts in the 70-300mm DO seem to echo a lot of the rather weak reviews I've seen.

correct, don't go there

And I have been very happy with my 55-250, which is the STM version.

I have this lens and like it for stills, perched, pedestrian motion, but it is not a sports lens

In fact my only complaint about it would be that I wish it could bring in more light, because I can definitely remember times I've swapped off of it because I needed something that opens wider even when I would have preferred to have been able to zoom in closer to 55 (in these cases I've most often swapped to my 55mm full manual which is hard to get shots with but has really nice low-light performance).

shooting raw and using dxo PL6 with class leading noise redux can give you an extra 1 to 2 stops

For the 85mm vs the 100mm, it is less about how many positive reviews I've seen, and more about the portion that are negative. The user reviews on the 85mm seem to skew uniformly positive, while the 100mm seem to have more negatives.

But you've got me thinking that I should use my 55-250 to specifically do some shooting in the 85mm and 100mm range to see what makes sense for the situations I would use the lens in.

you can make it work to a certain degree with back button focus techniques - eg, focus lock on second base and capture the slide

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