70-300mm lens VR

spankey

Love taking pictures of the motorbike road racing.
My camera is a nikon d80 and lens is a 70-300mm 1:4-5.5G and the problem i have is at low shutter speeds and iso at 125&320 my pictures are blurred and i just want to know if i get the
70-300mm vr lens would it make a difference





any help would be great on this and sorry about my name across them

Ricky91t

First of all thats called panning and it gives a great sense of speed and motion.The vr will do nothing and i think i've read that using canons IS system while panning messes up the shot.First you need to up your ISO if that still doesn't work you'll need to get some f/2.8 glass like the nikon 80-200 or the sigma 70-200

PCPhoto

changing the lens wont change your pics much.....as Ricky said a 70-200 f2.8 will make a difference - but its technique that you need to master.

you seem to get close to what you want by panning - (keep practicing that) - try a higher shutter speed (and/or) maybe a higher ISO (but given the bright daylight I wouldnt go above ISO400)

anyway - keep going, you are nearly there

you could try taking the pics from another angle (Straight on / overhead/ from outside instead of inside line) and maybe start shooting as the driver brings the bike in front of you (track the driver and shoot him/her as they pass you)
- all the pics seem to be taken as the driver passes away from you.

Ensure that the focus is in servo mode, high enough shutter speed and pan away !!! (Best of luck)

quilmore

VR will help your panning

The VR is able to detect that you are panning and only corrects for camera shake in the vertical direction as you pan. Of course that's if you have the VR turned on. It does the same if you are shooting perpendicular (horizontal only) to the motion of a vehicle.

Borderfox

Canon IS mode 2 will help with panning too

spankey

cant afford the bigger lens yet, but maybe some day and thanks for the help