Wakeboarding Waterskiing
Aug/090
What lens is good for action sports?
Im looking to buy a lens mainly for taking shots of waterskiing and wakeboarding and ill be taking the shots from the boat. the rope is about 50-60ft so I would like to know what telephoto lens would be good for under $600.
In situations like that I prefer to have a variable zoom lens. It takes a hit on the f stop but the advantage of not changing lenses while bouncing in a boat with spray coming over the bow, makes it worth it to me. Not knowing what camera you have makes it difficult to be too specific. Depending on your sensor chip size the effective lens size will vary. In the 35mm world a decent 75-300 should fall well within your budget. Now if you have 2 bodies I’d like to set up one with a fixed 75 and a fixed 300 on the other – Just my preference I’m sure others will chime in with theirs.
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