Nikon D7100 announced (24mp, no AA, 51pt AF)

An Exception said:
I'm not a machine gunner. Probably why I find sport photography a little boring. There often doesn't seem to be much art involved, just a bunch of guy's sat on the sideline firing away with a long lens.

Darren Heath's work is an exception as I really like his work, but maybe he has more opportunity to be creative than guy's shooting a football game?
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I don't shoot sports, and I sympathise to an extent with you. But then it's completely different genre and a completely different skillset, even if the gear may be similar. It's about understanding what you're shooting, knowing who's going to go where, how play is going to develop, and being even more aware of what's happening across the pitch, field, court, whatever, than even the players are, and that's how you capture the moments. It's not so much about framing, or composition, or creative imagery, so much as capturing a heart breaking or incredibly joyous moment for so many people, be it 30 people standing on the sideline at a reserves game, or the champions league final.

This people are paid millions to be able to outwit their opponents and be unpredictable, it's the photographer's job to predict.
 
An Exception said:
I'm not a machine gunner. Probably why I find sport photography a little boring. There often doesn't seem to be much art involved, just a bunch of guy's sat on the sideline firing away with a long lens.

Darren Heath's work is an exception as I really like his work, but maybe he has more opportunity to be creative than guy's shooting a football game?
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It's not quite like that all the time, but for some shots you have no option but to shoot fast.

I dont like machine gunning either but you cant avoid it 100% in field sports IMO where it is very unpredictable....
 
An Exception said:
I'm not a machine gunner. Probably why I find sport photography a little boring. There often doesn't seem to be much art involved, just a bunch of guy's sat on the sideline firing away with a long lens.

Darren Heath's work is an exception as I really like his work, but maybe he has more opportunity to be creative than guy's shooting a football game?
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As you seem to think its just a case of pointing a camera in the general direction of the subject and machine gunning away.... I can see why you might find that boring :rolleyes:

Composition applies just as much, as does an inane ability to predict what course the action is going to take. I got as much satisfaction from a nailed sports shot encompassing all the emotion of the moment as I did with the same sort of shot at a wedding. I'm at the other end of the scale as I prefer capturing real emotions/actions as they happen. Posed stuff leaves me cold, and I don't enjoy that side of wedding photography.
 
Ksanti said:
This people are paid millions to be able to outwit their opponents and be unpredictable, it's the photographer's job to predict.
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londonbairn said:
I dont like machine gunning either but you cant avoid it 100% in field sports IMO where it is very unpredictable....
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I can see the whole predicting thing, especially with field sport. I once tried my hand at some motor sport at Prescott and I quite allot of fun. Link. I decided I didn't want to spend the day like the official tog's. They pretty much just pitched up by some tyres (or where-ever) and just sat there for ages clicking the same composition over and over just with different cars. No prediction needed, you could hear the cars coming. Shooting like that isn't my idea of fun.
 
Rojin said:
I'm at the other end of the scale as I prefer capturing real emotions/actions as they happen. Posed stuff leaves me cold, and I don't enjoy that side of wedding photography.
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Weddings I think are unique in that they 'can' encompass many genres of photography and techniques. You can shoot journalistically trying to predict moments. If your comfortable directing, you can switch to a more editorial style or even fashion. You can do some product work, some landscape or architectural work, some long exposures, even nature. You can add lot's of variety in terms of composition etc etc...
 
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An Exception said:
Weddings I think are unique in that they 'can' encompass many genres of photography and techniques. You can shoot journalistically trying to predict moments. If your comfortable directing, you can switch to a more editorial style. You can do some product work, some landscape or architectural work, some long exposures, some nature the list goes on...
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...and what you makes you think a sports photographer cannot do the same? Sure some turn up only to shoot from the sidelines for standard paper copy and have no interest in doing anything else. There are others who are much more involved; carrying out team photo sessions, crowd shots, commercial shots of the facilities and locations, commercial shots based on sponsorship coverage and requirements, the list goes on. Just as there is a vast difference in the type of coverage you can provide for a wedding, there is exactly the same in other avenues of photography.

Did you got to Prescott and just shoot the cars on the track?... ;)
 
londonbairn said:
I agree with Rojin, I don't see this on the same parallel as a 7d Mark II, but Canon clearly have to deliver with the 70D. The gulf of 6fps vs 10fps is very significant for a sports photographer.
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No this D7100 is clearly not supposed to go tete-a-tete with a 7dmk2.

Someone on dpreview asked Nikon UK is the the D7100 would be the top end DX camera and Nikn surprisingly replied very quickly with a very definitive no and said to keep your eyes open.

The d400 is guranteed it is just surprising it has taken so long (earthquakes and floods didn't help) or that it will be released after d7100.

Looking at the pricing Nikon has a d7100 at $1200 and a d600 at $2000, leaving a large spacing in the $1600-1800 range for a 10FPS D400.
 
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