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<blockquote data-quote="Dr Daniels" data-source="post: 47665" data-attributes="member: 9097">The 70-200mm f/2.8 VR seems to be the ideal lens for action photography because of the fast and accurate focus motor of this brilliant lens.Sports shots with fast moving subjects is a difficult thing, the ideal would be to have the subject in focus and the background motion blurred by panning.&nbsp; I personally think that the horse's feet should be motioned blurred as well to give a feeling of speed and movement.I second the advise to set your D700 in shutter priority, and would almost lean towards manual mode with auto ISO since your D700 will handle high ISO just fine.Set your auto focus switch to C (continuous focus) and use the D700's awesome 3D tracking focus points for accurate panning.I would stay with apertures of between f/4 and f/8, and shutter speed between 1/60 (or lower) and 1/100 max.&nbsp; The 70-200mm's VR will help panning at low shutter speed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr Daniels, post: 47665, member: 9097"] The 70-200mm f/2.8 VR seems to be the ideal lens for action photography because of the fast and accurate focus motor of this brilliant lens. Sports shots with fast moving subjects is a difficult thing, the ideal would be to have the subject in focus and the background motion blurred by panning. I personally think that the horse's feet should be motioned blurred as well to give a feeling of speed and movement. I second the advise to set your D700 in shutter priority, and would almost lean towards manual mode with auto ISO since your D700 will handle high ISO just fine. Set your auto focus switch to C (continuous focus) and use the D700's awesome 3D tracking focus points for accurate panning. I would stay with apertures of between f/4 and f/8, and shutter speed between 1/60 (or lower) and 1/100 max. The 70-200mm's VR will help panning at low shutter speed. [/QUOTE]

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