Ultimate Sports-Shooting Setup

[Colin Southern]

Every aspiring sports shooter should have a set of these ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AuyV...eature=related

[kevinbythebeach]

meh not that impressed...So hes got 3 marks rigged to shoot together....zzzz

and for baseball? I think its kind of overkill....baseball is a slow game.


PS I watched the video without audio...I might have missed something.

[Colin Southern]

I watched the video without audio...I might have missed something.

You did

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Hi,
In the history of photography this method is known from earlies.(the horse with all four
legs in the air).For a freelance photographer/amateur is too expensive one.
Radu Dinu

[rpcrowe]

Every aspiring sports shooter should have a set of these ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AuyV...eature=related

What a neat setup. It is amazing what you can do if you have the desire and the resources.

Here is an excellent YouTube video on shooting U.S. Football using two bodies. I am sure that the techniques shown here would be applicable to most participant sports which are shot from the sidelines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMgZ13X_pr4

I have used his technique of one camera on a monopod and the other hand-held shooting soccer and it works quite well. However, I use the 70-200mm f/4L IS and 300mm f/4L IS lenses on 1.6x cameras as a "poor man's" version of this setup. However since I shoot most sports at apertures less than the maximum (unless I definitely want a shallow DOF), the f/4 lenses do quite well. Unfortunately, after two knee replacements and spinal fusion, I am not as agile as I once was.

[Colin Southern]

after two knee replacements and spinal fusion, I am not as agile as I once was.

We'll have to start calling you "the bionic man"!

Actually, I watched a partial knee replacement on you tube just a few days ago - I'm sure glad that the surgeons know what they're doing because I can't figure much of it out.

Always curious as to why they wear "space helmets" during that kind of surgery.

[rpcrowe]

We'll have to start calling you "the bionic man"!

Actually, I watched a partial knee replacement on you tube just a few days ago - I'm sure glad that the surgeons know what they're doing because I can't figure much of it out.

Always curious as to why they wear "space helmets" during that kind of surgery.

You should see me when I go through airport security. Luckily I am a ruddy-faced, blue-eyed guy. If my bionic parts were combined with racial profiling; I would never be allowed on a plane.

As such, I always need to go through security early since I get thoroughly searched every time...

"The detector is going off because of my right knee! No, the detector is going off because of my left knee! On the other hand, it may be the pins in my back that is setting it off. Honestly Sir, I have no bomb attached to my body!"