The Kick that killled the Kingdom

jim54321 wrote: »

A fluke !

Bitter and twisted:D

For TTWNF



I am no expert on lenses – but I like the 80-400 for its size and ‘ zoom flexibility’.
It is relatively small & light and has an aeasy to control zoom function.

These plusses come with a real negative and that is the widest aperture size of F5.6( fully extended).
This really is a pain in the ass for sports stuff in standard Irish light as you have to zap the ISO way up to 500 and upwards to get shutter speeds that will prevent blurred/unfocussed images.

Having said that I used bring an old warhorse 300mm 2.8mm nikkor AF lens to Croker- which gave great images at much lower ISOs. But it was heavy and inflexible and as well as that when in the stand in the place you don’t want to look like a bit of a plonker,

All the photos were taken from the 21m line at the Canal end of the pitch so I was a long way from this piece of action.

All action shots were at 195mm @ F5.6 – ISO 560.

This does still gives decent quality – see an original here




And the subsequent crop on Photoshop




I am bringing the lens to Laytown races tomorrow – so hopefully it will do the business.