What kind of lens do you use for ski photography?

Pippin

Pippin

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Hey guys, ive done quite a bit of photography, but i want to get into some more ski photography, can you guys suggest what the best and essential lens/ lenses i should have. Which ones do you use most and get the best shot from or does it depend on the certain scenario. Thanks for the help guys.
 
yeah, but if you got a quality image sensor, you can afford to crop afterwards, and nothing looks doper than pics with a fish eye
 
ahhh yah agreed fisheye shots look dope....i have an rebel xt the second generation, does that have good enough image sensors or what?
 
lol thats my question but yah dont use stock lenses they are usually pretty shitty at least if you get them with the cannons xt or xti
 
yeah, I'm looking for a lens to use other than my stock with my xti right now. any recommendations for that? haha.
 
well i have the kit lens and then a 70-300, but its not super sharp as it get 250+ so yah a 70-200 maybe L lens would be great....gotta find some cash though...what do you have
 
only the kit and I've been itching to get something else. I was looking at some 70-300's. what kind do you have? I'm looking for something I can get the most out of and I want a lot of zoom but I don't want to spend above $500 so that limits it a bit.

if you want really sharp pictures and you have the money go with an L. they're supposed to be very nice, I can't really recommend a particular one because I haven't personally used them, sorry.
 
i have a kindof gap between my 70 and 50mm that i want to fill, i am looking at a really quick and low for light one that isn't necesarily for skiing, yah an L lens would be nice but i doubt i can bring that kind of money togheth lol
 
my 70-300mm also has a macro setting which has worked wonders, you can chck out some sample shots from the link below, they turned out really amazing i think. Maybe a good wide angle might come in hand, do you think?

 
yeah, I looked before at the link and the macro setting definitely seems to work. nice shots.

a wide angle could work, and it'd also be good for landscape shots of the mountains if you wanted to take some. you could maybe find an L cheaper used but it's hard to say. has the 70-300 been great so far, what kind is it?
 
its sigma, its 450 but i got a deal for 315....i wanna be able to do get sequences which means fast lens the xt does 2.5 fps what does the xt get? i think you could get the landscape to work although it would work best on those huge booters that the pros do but who am i kidding im not photographing the pros.
 
hm, not a bad price at all. I'll look into it, maybe I'll pick one up. the xti is only 3.5 fps. It seems like it's fast but I've never actually shot a sequence with it yet. It does have to buffer after a certain number of shots though. I've only had it for a month or so now so I'm still playing around with everything an slr has to offer. hey, you never know who you could be shooting! but yeah, I'm sure there's plenty of other things you could do with a wide angle.

Ideally I want a zoom of 200 or 300, a wide angle, a prime of 50mm or something around there, and a zoom for all around similar to the kit but better quality. right now I'm just looking for the first.
 
yah my telephto is sigma, there a lot cheap than canon and a bit less in quality so its worth it for me
 
I've been using a Sigma 17-70mm and have been happy with it so far. Sometimes it would be REALLY nice to have a telephoto, but I can't afford one until this summer when I can actually work. I think it all depends on what you like to shoot and how you like to shoot it though.
 
i use a 70-200 canon lens for my xti. if you have your stock lens, it's a good combo to have to be able to get a variety of shots. fisheye give you a cool effect but a telephoto can cover a lot of bases. Amazon.com has some good canon lens deals every once in a while.
 
that looks like a pretty decent lens

i have a telephoto lens right now but im just wondering what to cover my 50-70mm range with, waht is most used for ski photography like what range?
 
It's a wide angle lens. I'm trying to find some good samples....

this one shows the wide-angle-ness...the colors and white balance and stuff are photoshopped, so that doesn't really represent the lens obviously.

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again, the colors are off...

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dont forget, always multiply by 1.5 or near that when you're using D-SLR, so a 70 becomes like 105..

I dont like fisheye lenses because they have a huge DOF... I like bokeh!
 
should be less than 500. one thing to consider though, is that its a DX lens, cropped to fit the sensors of digital cameras like the 10D, so if you want to use it on film or a full-frame digi it won't work out. I wanted it like this because I knew I would be using my 10D for a long time and and I wanted the full 10mm wideness.
 
forgot to say that its like you zoom 1.5 times... the difference from a FILM (35mm for ex.) cameras to D-SLRs. Like a 35mm is 50mm equivalent on D-SLRs. Even if you buy a, for example a brand new Sony lens, made for the Alpha 700, the 35mm lens is a 50 mm lens equivalent, because its digital. You can look for that on the net.
 
oooh, okay I gotcha. I never knew about that, interesting. how does one tell if a lens is made for film or dslr?
 
Theres no D-SLR lenses or SLR lenses, its just lenses. so if you're on a d-slr, it zooms, if not, it doesn't
 
no its not, its a 75... equivalent.

lets say.

You take a picture with a FILM CAMERA with a 150m lens. it gives you a picture.

Then, if you take a picture with a D-SLR with a 100mm lens, it will give you the same picture (frame wise).

but if you switch the 2 lenses - D-SLR having a 150mm ( times 1.5 = 225 mm lens )) and FILM CAMERA having a 100mm ( = 100mm) one will be very zoomed, and you will have more in your picture.

 
i bring two lenses when i am out shooting. a Nikkor 18-200 vr and a Nikkor 12-24.  This seems to cover what i shoot, quite well.  i would like a 70-200 f2.8 but i dont have the funds right now.  and typically shooting ski photography, you are working with a ton of light so having a super fast lens is not always a requirement.  

 
yes, there are D-SLR lenses. They are built to focus the light on the smaller sensor of a DSLR. So if you use it with 35 mm, it would have hardcore vignetting. Anyways, that lens is built to work with cameras like the XT. 

My advice is to rent or try out the top three or four lenses you are looking at and to base off of that.
 
nice, nice, i dont a bit of vingnetting and it looks all right in certain situations...so im think probabbly a fish eye
 
not true

and i shoot a 30D, battery grip, sigma 18-50 dc ex f2.8, and a 70- 200 dg ex f 2.8
 
and your point is?

Put you sigma 18-50 on a 35mm camera, and wont get the same picture.

Listing your set up is not a good argument...
 
70-200 f/4L is a great lens for skiing, and you can find em for around $500. 2.8 isn't really necessary when you always have lots of light
 
thats true, exspecially with the snow so being so reflective, not sure i want to shell out that much for a lens till i know for sure skiing will be a big part of my photography, want something liek around 300 because im not super serious with ski photography.
 
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