Some D1 basketball Kingston RI

hrstrat57

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A few snaps taken today with D700 / Nikkor 80-200 F/2.8 most ISO 5000 I believe. Could play with straightening a bit on a couple that are a bit rough but basketball is tough with all the lines......and I am too tired to deal with it now.

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Put a few others up on my Instagram account same handle....
 
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Marcel

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Great shots proving again that the D 700 is no slouch when it comes to action high iso fast focusing shooting.
 

hrstrat57

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Thanks @Marcel !

Matched up one the MB-D10 and Nikon 80-200 AF D F/2.8 it is one sweet handling piece of kit!

Pretty exciting to have pro level gear in my hands again!

I have seen seen some pics taken at the same game of some of the same action by a local pro shooting a D4S with a 200-400 AF F/4. My gear hangs in there with shots produced.
 

hrstrat57

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Since some very respected posters appear to be enjoying the shots how about a few more?

Interesting thing to note....this gym just put in an LED ribbon display. I had no idea how much it would influence the exposure at near court level! Nearly impossible to shoot M and get a constant exposure with the LED ribbon display constantly changing. I quickly realized A was the way to go and I bumped the ISO up from the 4000 shot in the last session upstairs to 5000. As a result and as you can see some of these could use a bit more processing! Not shooting pro so posting them as is......I'm still pretty happy with the results. I rediscovered how hard it is to shoot F /2.8 with a pro lens....unlike the shots taken with the 70-300VR I experienced a few focus misses due to the limited DOF of the 80-200 AF ED F/2.8! I probably need to play with a few different focus metering choices to get the hit percentage up. Unfortunately one of the misses was the key play of the game down the stretch, a big block with less than a minute to go by Hassan Martin. Yep, backfocused!!


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hrstrat57

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Couple upper deck snaps from last night season opener.....I cropped these a bit on my IG account but not here. D700, Nikkor AF 80-200 f 2.8 D

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