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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joseph Bautsch" data-source="post: 2793" data-attributes="member: 654"><p>Anthony - I must respectfully disagree with your disagreement. And please don't take offense, it's not intended. I don't know how much experience you have in shooting football games but I have shot football games both H.S. and Collage since 1960. I've use a lot of different types of equipment and shooting styles. I know for a fact that the 18-105mm Kit lens will do an excellent job used as I described because I've used it that way many times. I hope you are not planning on using a tripod on the side lines. That will never work. I've used a monopod on several occasions but found that it is clumsy and inconvenient in moving with and getting the action shots. At football games you have to anticipate where the action will be next and then go find it. Tripods and even monopods will slow you down and be nothing but a drag. Shooting at 1/500, even at 300mm hand held you should not have a problem with the pictures being blurry or with camera motion. I've never had that problem anyway. Also the 70-300mm is not better than the kit lens. Which lens I use depends on the shooting to be done. The 18-105mm for the sideline and closer in shots and the 70-300mm for the shots on the other side of/or down the field. I don't know why you should feel leery about using flash from the sideline. I've used flash from the sideline at every night game I have ever shot since 1960 and that's in the hundreds. Even with the stadium lights on, they don't help with your lighting needs, not for stop action anyway. It takes flash at night to get good crisp action stopped pictures. To get on the sidelines in a pro or collage game you will need a "Photographers Sideline Pass". I use to have a shoe box full of them I was keeping as mementoes of some of the games I shot. As for H.S. I don't think I have ever needed a sideline pass or have ever been denied access to the sideline. Although that might have been because I was very active in my kids and now my grandkids schools and most everyone knows me. Even then I've never known a photographer that was denied access to the sidelines. Not in the County I live in anyway. BTW sometimes even with a wide open aperture at 300mm you may need a higher ISO. The D90 will give you very good photos even up to ISO 800. So if you put the ISO on auto you can set a top limit of 800. But even then if it's a choice between getting a picture or not getting one let it float with no upper limit.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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