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Over the past couple days I have been shooting a bit of basketball with the M8. It does very well under the stadium lighting. Most were shot with a Noctilux at f1.8 and 640iso and some were shot with a 35mm Summicron at f2 or 24mm ASPH at f2.8 and 1250iso.

 

This one is shot with the Noctilux.

 

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Here is a flash gallery with more pictures form the game created with LightRoom. On the M8 I had the Noctilux, 32mm Summicron ASPH, and 24mm ASPH. There are a few DMR shots mixed in. I used the 180mm APO Summicron and 19mm on the DMR.

 

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Rob,

 

Very nice action shots! I'm happy to see the M8/Noctilux combination perform so well. I was looking for "another" reason to pick up the lens and YOU have just provided it to me. Thanks.........I think$$$. Keep up the great work.

 

Cheers,

 

Jim

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Nice stuff Robert. But i shot some Playboy bunnies yesterday that was more fun. LOL

 

Much more relaxing work. LOL

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They were looking at none other than Tommy Constantine race car driver of the Playboy racing team. okay the guy is better looking than me. What can i say. LOL

 

BTW he races in the Rolex division and a really nice guy to boot

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LOl i did these real quick in ACR so there off just a little in color but i am sure that is not what you guys are looking at . But you know i do play fare and had to post Tommy for the ladies here. LOL

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You know i find this very interesting this thread because back in the day there were no stinging Motor drives or AF camera's and us old dogs shot sports with intuition and the decisive moment. Frankly i think all of that is lost now that people can't think they can't get a sports short or high action without a bloody motor drive. The M8 may not be the perfect tool for this but it CAN be done and done well. coming from a old dog that still likes to work a camera than it work me

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They were looking at none other than Tommy Constantine race car driver of the Playboy racing team. okay the guy is better looking than me. What can i say. LOL

 

BTW he races in the Rolex division and a really nice guy to boot

 

 

Guy,

 

Don't you wish that you were the one getting the picture taken instead? :D

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I did an indoor socceer shoot on the 4th with success, as well. Here is a shot:

 

Note: v.1.091 with a profile that Edmund built specially for that version!

This is 35mm 'lux asph with 486 filter, 1/250, iso 640, no noise reduction or other processing except WB from a gray shirt on one of the goalies.

 

I always carry a WhiBal card, but forgot to bring the assistant who reminds me to do the things I forget to do.

 

BTW, I was following the player in red in the background, so the two guys in the collision in the foreground are sadly oof.

 

Of course, the subjects in my photo are moving faster than the ones in Guy's photo.

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Hi Rob,

Hopefully this is not out of place here, however I just wanted to take my hat off to your images that you regularly post on the forum. Excellent, and inspiring. I love the way that you show everyone here that it does not matter if you're using a R or M or whatever other camera's you use to achieve excellent results. Just shows that it is the person behind the camera that makes the images. Welldone, I certainly hope that I will be able to create images that are half as good as your's one day. Thank you for your posting's.

 

Andreas

 

PS: I'm certain that you could take a disposable (one of those throw away cameras) and still work magic with it...

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Here is my gallery from the Championship Game. The winner of this game (Acadia in white) is the Atlantic region Champion. They go on to the National Championship, which is held at the same venue next weekend. The second place team also makes it to the National championships, as the host region gets to have two teams in the National championship.

 

I made a few changes to the Lightroom generated flash gallery. It now displays the file name. Any file that starts with 121 was shot with the DMR, the others, with the M8. The DMR was shot at 800iso, the M8 at 640iso. I used the 180mm APO Summicron and 19mm on the DMR. On the M8 I had the Noctilux, 35mm Summicron ASPH and 24mm ASPH.

 

Robert

 

click the link below to see the gallery.

 

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