24-70 f 2.8 lens (Page 2): You'll be a lot happier with 70-200 f/2.8...

DavidPine Loc: Fredericksburg, TX

You'll be a lot happier with 70-200 f/2.8

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

vma wrote:

Is this a good lens for indoor volleyball? What are the recommended set up & settings for this lens?
D5300 Nikon camera with Tamron 24-70 f/2.8 Vc lens.
High school indoor volleyball

The Canon 24-70mm f2.8 is a must have lens, as well as the 70-200mm f2.8 for pro NFL photographers with Canon 1DX full frame cameras. They shoot day and night games. I'm unaware if stadium lights makes a lot of difference than daylight games when shooting. The DX D500 would most likely be a better choice with the 24-70mm f2.8 lens than the D5300. The 70-200mm f2.8 is among the most popular sports lens. In my community, flash units are banned for indoor High School Basketball Games.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

I have shot quite a bit of indoor volleyball with my Canon 7D MII & 5D MIII. I use two lenses. Canon 24 - 70mm f/2.8 II (for close shots) and Canon 70 - 200mm f/2.8 II for all other shots. You will need a fast lens - f/2.8 if possible. The vantage point of view is the real challenge, because of the net. Arrive early and shoot the warm up while experimenting with exposure. I frequently used shutter priority, set at 1/400, sometime manual, sometimes aperture priority. The better shots will always include the ball in focus. PM me for additional suggestions. It is a challenging, but fun venue. Lighting is often difficult.
Mark

vma wrote:

Is this a good lens for indoor volleyball? What are the recommended set up & settings for this lens?
D5300 Nikon camera with Tamron 24-70 f/2.8 Vc lens.
High school indoor volleyball

billnourse Loc: Bloomfield, NM

My experience with high school sports is the light is low and I am usually close enough to the action that the 24-70 f2.8 is about right. I have a 70-200 if needed. On a crop frame you are looking at about 35-105 so you should be good. If you are allowed to shoot under the basket the wide end might be a little narrow on a crop frame. This was shot in a high school under the basket. 24-70L f2.8, iso 2500 shutter 1/400 @ f2.8

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markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Bill,
He's shooting volleyball - much more difficult than basketball. You are right about the light - can be very challenging.
Mark

billnourse wrote:

My experience with high school sports is the light is low and I am usually close enough to the action that the 24-70 f2.8 is about right. I have a 70-200 if needed. On a crop frame you are looking at about 35-105 so you should be good. If you are allowed to shoot under the basket the wide end might be a little narrow on a crop frame. This was shot in a high school under the basket. 24-70L f2.8, iso 2500 shutter 1/400 @ f2.8

Eddy Vortex

See if you can find out the color temperature of the lighting in the gym, Read your manual :)

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

I believe that if you are pretty close to the players it should be all you need.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

vma wrote:

Is this a good lens for indoor volleyball? What are the recommended set up & settings for this lens?
D5300 Nikon camera with Tamron 24-70 f/2.8 Vc lens.
High school indoor volleyball

At full frame equivalence, that's a 36-105mm. It's a tad short, but still useful.

I'd prefer a 70-200 f/2.8 zoom, at 105-300mm equivalence.

There are many ways to cover volleyball, so talk to the person in charge of the court, get clearance to cover from an appropriate location, and pick a lens that works from there.

Gym lighting is all over the place. It can be incandescent, fluorescent, mercury vapor, sodium vapor, HMI, or an absurd combination of these.

Fluorescent requires a camera that can avoid the flicker... There is a special setting for that on some bodies. Start with a custom white balance, using an ExpoDisc or other suitable white balance tool.

Mercury vapor and sodium vapor lamps have discontinuous spectra — lots of missing colors. It's impossible to get perfect color from them, even with custom white balance.

HMI and incandescent are workable illuminants. HMI tends to be around 5000K, and incandescent ranges from 2700K to 3200K. Custom white balance works best.

If you can visit the location ahead of time, and test, that will help you a lot.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Not easy with HS volleyball.
Mark

camerapapi wrote:

I believe that if you are pretty close to the players it should be all you need.

2nefoto

In most instances, the lense is too short. However, if you can cover the entire court by moving up in the stands. This will give your images a different perspective. You can catch the ball in flight while seeing all players' reactions.

MtnMan Loc: ID

Based on my experience with basketball in a school gym that lens should be perfect.

Set the camera on M mode. Set f-stop on 2.8. Set shutter speed on at least 1/250 if you are OK with a little motion blur...1/500 if not.

Use single point focus and spot metering. AF-A or AF-C.

Turn on auto ISO with the min shutter speed as above and max ISO at 6400.

MtnMan Loc: ID

billnourse wrote:

My experience with high school sports is the light is low and I am usually close enough to the action that the 24-70 f2.8 is about right. I have a 70-200 if needed. On a crop frame you are looking at about 35-105 so you should be good. If you are allowed to shoot under the basket the wide end might be a little narrow on a crop frame. This was shot in a high school under the basket. 24-70L f2.8, iso 2500 shutter 1/400 @ f2.8

Nice!

Deecee

It's a great lens, but it's heavy and expensive and it's meant for full frame cameras. True, you can use it on a DX camera, but you would be better off with a good DX lens, something in the 70-300mm with VR, like this one

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/872407-REG/Nikon_AF_S_DX_18_300mm_f_3_5_5_6G.html

hrblaine

On a dx crop camera 24-70 is 36-105. So would you still say its too short or am I confusing things?

You are confusing things. Lens do not magically change focal lengths when you go from full frame to crop. It just looks like it does because the field of view changes.

cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA

The 70-200/2.8 is my personal goto lens for lots of sports. Indoors I do mix it up, most often using faster and shorter lenses depending upon the conditions and desired outcome. I have some volleyball experience and it's not that easy to do. You will get much better as you get some practice in. Go, shoot, learn! Best of luck.