Hi All!
After being a Nikon shooter for the better part of 2 decades almost I've finally had it with Nikon. I'm mostly a sports photographer shooting my nieces and nephews sporting events as well as the various high school sports teams that I drive for(I drive school bus and take my camera along to kill the time while I'm waiting) as well as a semi-pro baseball team local to me. I also go to the Pittsburgh zoo and take pictures of the animals as well. I also shoot portraits as well as during our church services I take pictures of the praise band and other things. We have a concert like lighting set up for the church. So I need fast glass and camera bodies that have great low light capability. As much as I would love to go mirrorless and appreciate the technology behind it I've held the R5 and R6 with the grips on and I've held an R3 and they just don't feel right in my hands. I have some friends that have had at various times bodies in the 1 DX line of cameras and they felt great in my hand when I held them. As much as I would love to go out and spend the money on a couple of new or used 1 DX Mark III's that is just not in my budget right now. So my questions are these:
1. Are the 1 DX and 1 DX Mark II still viable today in 2022?
2. Will they offer me the ability to still do what I love to do(sports, zoo wildlife, concert-type pictures, and portraiture)?
3. Are there any cons to going with either of these bodies?
4. Other than a 70-200mm and 24-70mm f2.8 lenses are there any other lenses you would recommend? I was looking at a used 300 f2.8 for football(the 400mm even used is still too rich for my blood) and the 300 f4 is a lens that I love for baseball and zoo wildlife. I've only used Nikon's version though is Canon's comparable?
Any advice you could offer me would be greatly appreciated. I haven't been in the Canon universe since the early digital days and I had a Digital Rebel XT and the days of film so I'm not as up on things as I used to be back then.
Matt aka DevPreach
After being a Nikon shooter for the better part of 2 decades almost I've finally had it with Nikon. I'm mostly a sports photographer shooting my nieces and nephews sporting events as well as the various high school sports teams that I drive for(I drive school bus and take my camera along to kill the time while I'm waiting) as well as a semi-pro baseball team local to me. I also go to the Pittsburgh zoo and take pictures of the animals as well. I also shoot portraits as well as during our church services I take pictures of the praise band and other things. We have a concert like lighting set up for the church. So I need fast glass and camera bodies that have great low light capability. As much as I would love to go mirrorless and appreciate the technology behind it I've held the R5 and R6 with the grips on and I've held an R3 and they just don't feel right in my hands. I have some friends that have had at various times bodies in the 1 DX line of cameras and they felt great in my hand when I held them. As much as I would love to go out and spend the money on a couple of new or used 1 DX Mark III's that is just not in my budget right now. So my questions are these:
1. Are the 1 DX and 1 DX Mark II still viable today in 2022?
2. Will they offer me the ability to still do what I love to do(sports, zoo wildlife, concert-type pictures, and portraiture)?
3. Are there any cons to going with either of these bodies?
4. Other than a 70-200mm and 24-70mm f2.8 lenses are there any other lenses you would recommend? I was looking at a used 300 f2.8 for football(the 400mm even used is still too rich for my blood) and the 300 f4 is a lens that I love for baseball and zoo wildlife. I've only used Nikon's version though is Canon's comparable?
Any advice you could offer me would be greatly appreciated. I haven't been in the Canon universe since the early digital days and I had a Digital Rebel XT and the days of film so I'm not as up on things as I used to be back then.
Matt aka DevPreach