Digital BW, The Print

Atta boy, Keith-

You went where I was worried to go.  Especially your closing remark.  

Most of the Johnny-come-lately burst frame "pros" couldn't have made it with
film.

Regards,

Seth

=You MUST be kidding...
=
=Look, I've HAD my sports imagery published in Sports Illustrated, ESPN 
=Magazine, The Sporting News, etc. etc...
=
=Frame rate does not equal some magic number of frames per sale..
=
=There are very limited situations in which a high burst rate or high 
=number of images to buffer is useful...
=
=In sports, you might find that shooting an unstrobed drive to 
=the basket 
=in basketball.. Oooops, only good for newspapers... High ISO images 
=won't make it elsewhere..
=
=Ok, so maybe that  sequence as someone crosses the finish 
=line, breaking 
=the ribbon/tape..
=
=Or maybe a NASCAR crash sequence...
=
=Or maybe a long jump, hurdle, etc..
=
=Beyond that, the best images are shot by anticipating -- what 
=Cartier-Bresson taught as the moment "where all stands at the pivot 
=point of the fulcrum."  :Shooting that moment when all 
=changes"... "The 
=decisive moment."  
=
=You get those shots in the can with practice and timing, not 
=by shooting 
=500 rolls of film per game...
=
=and it isn't like if you shoot a burst of images you will have an 
=accordingly higher variety of subjects in each burst.. That's 
= nonsensical.. You end up with a variety of images of ONE 
=subject..  If 
=you are shooting kids in sports, no parent is going to buy a 
=whole roll 
=of their kid..
=
=In hoops (basketball), I use strobes, that mean 2-3 seconds between 
=shots...  That also means I MUST anticipate and follow the action I 
=can't just hold the trigger and pick a shot later.. (that's for video 
=people to do, not stills photogs)  Go to any major sporting event 
=(unstrobed).  Sit next to those who DO get their images in SI.. No, 
=better yet, sit next to one of  those on the SI staff (which I am not 
=and have never been)..  You won't hear many long bursts.  You'll hear 
=lots of bursts of 2 and 3 shots and lots of single shots -- for the 
=amount of time the camera is to their eye you won't hear a lot of 
=shutter travel..
=
=So, there is no way that higher frame rate will equate to more quality 
=pics to sell to parents.. Unless of course you set up a remote on the 
=bottom of a blimp with a wide angle lens aimed downward towards a 
=playing field and expect to sell the images of the game... (However, I 
=think the sales would be disappointing even with a 24 megapixel camera 
=-- it's gonna be tough for parents to ID their own kids)
=
=(Sorry, I just hate it when non-sports shooters opine on how sports 
=shooters get "the shot" and make money..)
=Keith
=