Does a zoom lense always need tripod ?

@scottcraig

@Shifter

Here are some shots using the new lens

Captured in T.V mod mostly.

http://imgur.com/a/k6MST

Evil Nemesis wrote:

@scottcraig

@Shifter

Here are some shots using the new lens

Captured in T.V mod mostly.

http://imgur.com/a/k6MST

Aha someone who plays cricket. Pictures are not bad but next time try to get in a bit tighter on the shots.

Thanks, agree about what you said but as it was my first time in open with the camera I was a bit shy.

Evil Nemesis wrote:

Thanks, agree about what you said but as it was my first time in open with the camera I was a bit shy.

That's okay. Keep practicing and you'll soon get the hang of it.

Some are pretty good. Some not. If you got tighter in with less background, they could be great. Did you use a tripod?

The lens you used seems very good.

Thanks for commenting mate, nops I didn't use a tripod and to be honest with you all shots were taken from the same place and the one wide shot was taken to just check the focal length.

I started off 2 years ago on the same camera and lens and my 1st shot that I really liked was this guy. So your on to a good start. You seem to have captured the movement fine.

Dave Throgmartin wrote:

Phase detect autofocus (focus through the viewfinder) is not as accurate.

I didn't know this. It doesn't make sense to me; Live View should be less accurate.

so you're saying if I set my SL1 Live View to use Phase Detection (so the mirror flips up and back down to focus), I'm getting worse results than with the Live View system? Does this explain why Live View takes longer to focus compared to the view finder?

Live view maximizes contrast in the actual image; phase detection uses separate detectors that may not be perfectly aligned with the sensor.  Because live view uses the actual image, it's usually as accurate as any autofocusing method can be, although it may work slowly or not at all.