Besides, you'd get in the way of all those Canon and Nikon photog's.
Dave
>
> On Apr 17, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
>
> > Ball sports would require longer lenses and higher shutter speeds ...
> > thankfully, they bore me to tears so I never shoot them.
>
> Ha! You just don't understand the rules.
>
> I'm always surprised at how much movement I catch in human beings at
> 1/400 sec -- I wouldn't think that there would be that much, but feet
> and hands (especially the feet of a player exploding out of the
> batter's box) are frequently blurred. If I could get closer, I'd love
> to try shorter lenses and lower shutter speeds, but unfortunately
> there's a ton of foul territory at Rogers Centre and no way to get any
> closer to the subjects without interfering with the game. And they
> took away one of our better vantage points to add a new row of luxury
> seating! *sigh*
>
> -Aaron
>