picturebug Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 The baseball games seem to last longer here lately. The lenses I have range from f2.8 to f8.......film and digital. Are there any lenses that zoom at least 300mm w/f1.4 or more? And by the way what would be an average compensation, if f2.8 is too dark? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loreneidahl Posted May 7, 2005 Share Posted May 7, 2005 I think there was a 300 /f2 made many years ago by Nikon. I think the price then was around $20,000. No, to my knowledge there are no 300 f 1.4 production lenses that you can realisticly use and afford. A 200mm f2 is about as close as you will get. A 300 f.28 is great but you really need a monopod to keep it steady. Even the 200 f2 is a real big lens. Nikon makes it. For indoor concert work I use the following: 35 1.4-- 50 1.2-- 50 1.4-- 85 1.4-- 135 f2.0-- 200 f2.0-- 28-70 2.8-- 80-200 2.8-- 17-50 2.8 I can't use a tripod or a monopod so all of my shots are handheld with no flash. I set My ISO on digital to 1600. On film I use 800 I usually set my digitas to compentate by about 1.3 stops when using a fixed 2.8 zoom if I cant change the ISO. On film I have two stops dialed in automaitcally and then offest that by about a stop and a half so that my final image is a bit over exposed. This helps in the look of shot that I take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_ Posted May 8, 2005 Share Posted May 8, 2005 You can try using a 85mm f1.4 lens or a 135mm f2 lens, but a 300mm f1.4 lens is going to have to be 'designed' first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly_flanigan1 Posted May 8, 2005 Share Posted May 8, 2005 Re <i>I think there was a 300 /f2 made many years ago by Nikon. I think the price then was around $20,000.</i><BR><BR>A 300mm F1.4 lens would be 1.414 times in diameter. Cube this for a crude rough price ratio. This would be 2.8; or 56,000 bucks each; IF the tooling and design costs were spread put over 100's of units. Probably a single lens would be 250k to a million bucks to build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon_stacpoole__suffolk__ Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 Harriet, If you have Canon gear, you could try shooting with their 200mm f/1.8 lens. It's the fastest in the world at that length, and although it may not be long enough for some of the shots you want in more distant areas, I'm sure it would cater for some closer parts of the field. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picturebug Posted May 11, 2005 Author Share Posted May 11, 2005 Thanks for all your responses. I have a fuji S7000. I guess I'll just have to make do with the exposure compensation, once I figure it out. I'm kinda new to this but I'll figure it out. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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