Covering a Rugby match during the day in direct sunlight require some specific settings on your camera. Yesterday I covered the Griquas vs Western Province match in Kimberley on a lovely sunny day and want to share my setup that I used. Firstly I used two cameras namely a Nikon D3 and a Nikon D700. On…
The RAW Deal
Digital cameras have fantastic autofocus and exposure features, but if you want to be in control of your images, you need to shoot RAW. RAW means you are getting the full, uncompressed image as the camera sees it. If you shoot JPEG you’re letting the camera compress and process the image with a one…
Using a 300mm F2.8 for Portraiture
In 1992 I bought my first 300 mm F2.8 second hand from Pieter Els a friend of mine. It was a Tamron lens fitted with a Novoflex Pistol Grip. Tamron is a Japanese Product and Novoflex German. They got together to combine this lens with the Pistol grip focusing mechanism. This was before the Auto…
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