How to use two cameras at same time | Sports photography tips
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Welcome to this video where I am going to explain how you can use two cameras and lenses at the same time when shooting sports photography.
Knowing how to use cameras and photography gear is one thing, but being able to handle your sports photography gear safely and effectively at pitchside or courtside is not something many sports photographers give much thought to. But the more comfortable you are handling your gear, the better placed you will be to get the shots you want.
In this video, I show you how I use my two-camera setup when photographing pro football here in the UK. I use a big prime lens, the Canon EF 400mm f2.8 mounted on a Canon 80D and also a Canon 70-200mm f2.8 ii with a Canon 1D IV.
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I shoot with a 70-200 and a 300mm f2.8 hanging from a dual harness with a 16-35 hanging off one of the safety straps and I hand carry a 400mm.
I can’t stand having the 1DX and the 70-200 around my neck for 1.5 hours. It gives me literally a headache. So I sit lower and put the 70-200 on a Pelican case next to me. I then can grab the camera blindly if I need it. I also started to have another 1DX on the same Peli with the 16-35 to make celebration shoots when they run towards me. But otherwise, I also have the main lens on the Monopod and put it on my shoulder when I grab the other cam. And if I use the 16-35 as a goal cam, I have a foot switch in front of me to actuate that cam. Sometimes I don’t feel like a photographer more like a drummer. Except of the groupies. 😂
Hi Pascal. Sounds like a good setup - the weight of the 70-200 around the neck can be tiring, but I'm used to it. I'm sure in a few years I'll move onto a different approach!
haha I love the sound of a foot pedal for the remote camera! I have never seen one of those!
I’m going to ask you a stupid question but…As a beginner in photography, i wondered why you use two lenses…thank you and have a great day 🙂
Hi Chloe, thank you for watching and sorry for late response. That's not a stupid question, it's one I asked myself when I started out in sports! So, having two lenses gives you the opportunity to capture more shots. The camera body with the 70-200mm lens gives me the capability to get shots of everything in the final third of the pitch closest to me (if I'm shooting from behind the goal/end of pitch). But if I want photos of the defence or action from the opposite end of the pitch, then my camera with the 400mm lens gives me the focal length to do that. It's not really feasible to change lenses on a single body during a football match with the speed of action, so it's necessary in that case to have lenses on multiple bodies so you can capture everything you want to capture. Hope that helps!
While shooting some college softball I was pondering if there was a way to mount 2 cameras on 1 monopod. Some kind of bracket at the top that would allow 2 cameras, 1 on each side. I thought about trying to get creative to make something like like to attach to one.
Thanks for the tips.
I used a 500mm f/4 mounted on a monopod with one camera body, an 80-200mm f/2.8 zoom on a second body, and a wide-angle prime or zoom on a third body.
Thanks for watching and for sharing the comment. That sounds like a good setup. I'm currently on a 400mm 2.8, 70-200 2.8 and an old wide angle lens on standby in case of those close-ups!
Always great advice
I'm sure this is going to be a stupid question, so please forgive my ignorance. Why a monopod over a tripod? I'm just thinking it would be a little sturdier, and as you aren't ever adjusting the height as it's always at eye level you would be able to pan the same with it? I'm guessing the advantage is the ability to tilt forwards and backwards with it as it's a fixed focal point? Cheers and great content! Found you from your R1 Video, and have been binging the content since then!
Hi Declan, thank you for watching and for the message! Love that you've been enjoying the channel! Monopod gives more mobility, not just tilting, but also able to pan quicker for action, move out of the way of footballs quickly, walk around and shoot at different heights. Tripod would certainly save the shoulders a little though!
fascinating insights. thank you. an 80D on 400 2.8?! I was thinking a 300 2.8 on the 80d and the 70-200 on the R6. is it fast focus enough ?
Hi, thanks for watching! Re: the 80D - it does okay on the focussing, like anything it's a case of getting used to it. To be honest, it isn't ideal but was purchased as I needed something for a video project a couple of years ago so tried to get something in budget that would do both things. I'd like to get the 400mm onto a full-frame body asap!