Luke345678
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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Hello there friends,
I hope everyone is doing well. I just have a quick question that I'd love your guys insight on.
I currently shoot High School sports for a few local papers and my own site throughout my county which is an awesome job that pays well for someone in their Senior year of High School. For those of you that may know me and have seen me around, I've been doing this for three years now and love it. I bought a 1dx about a year ago and have been using it along with my Canon 70-200mm f2.8 to shoot just about everything. Obviously, I'd rather have a 300mm or 400mm f2.8 lens from canon but as a High School student, I've made it my priority to save about 85-90% of my earnings. I know, it seems extreme but college is around the corner!
I have decided I want to spend a bit of money but I'm not really willing to drop 3.5k for a used 300mm f2.8 canon lens. This is my senior year and I'm not sure how much use it will get while I'm in college. It would be too much basically. I've recently been turned onto the Sigma 120-300mm f2.8 lens which has stunning reviews everywhere I've bee looking. From what I've read, the lens compares quite well alongside the fixed 300mm from canon.
I found a trusted seller that is willing to part with his old one for around $1,100. I am super tempted to do this but it is my understanding that lenses that have an adjustable focal length are slower to focus and not as sharp as a fixed focus length. Does anyone know if it's a huge downgrade or relatively close. I find myself having to crop a lot of my shots from the canon 70-200mm f2.8 so I figure it will at least be a bit better than those.
I've also looked at a 2x extender for my 70-200mm. I know I'd lose some fstop which sucks but would it be better to just focus on touching those up in lightroom or make sure I maintain that f2.8 capability and go for the sigma lens.
Thanks,
Luke
I hope everyone is doing well. I just have a quick question that I'd love your guys insight on.
I currently shoot High School sports for a few local papers and my own site throughout my county which is an awesome job that pays well for someone in their Senior year of High School. For those of you that may know me and have seen me around, I've been doing this for three years now and love it. I bought a 1dx about a year ago and have been using it along with my Canon 70-200mm f2.8 to shoot just about everything. Obviously, I'd rather have a 300mm or 400mm f2.8 lens from canon but as a High School student, I've made it my priority to save about 85-90% of my earnings. I know, it seems extreme but college is around the corner!
I have decided I want to spend a bit of money but I'm not really willing to drop 3.5k for a used 300mm f2.8 canon lens. This is my senior year and I'm not sure how much use it will get while I'm in college. It would be too much basically. I've recently been turned onto the Sigma 120-300mm f2.8 lens which has stunning reviews everywhere I've bee looking. From what I've read, the lens compares quite well alongside the fixed 300mm from canon.
I found a trusted seller that is willing to part with his old one for around $1,100. I am super tempted to do this but it is my understanding that lenses that have an adjustable focal length are slower to focus and not as sharp as a fixed focus length. Does anyone know if it's a huge downgrade or relatively close. I find myself having to crop a lot of my shots from the canon 70-200mm f2.8 so I figure it will at least be a bit better than those.
I've also looked at a 2x extender for my 70-200mm. I know I'd lose some fstop which sucks but would it be better to just focus on touching those up in lightroom or make sure I maintain that f2.8 capability and go for the sigma lens.
Thanks,
Luke