Canon 70 - 200 IS f2.8 lens question

[Canonball]

Can someone please tell me how much of the action in the middle of a cricket pitch can this lens pick up,i mean can it get the whole player in frame or am i hoping for to much there,i'm trying to eliminate certain sports from my portfolio for when i get my own lens in january .Unfortunetly we don't have a shop that hires out lenses in my town which would've helped out heaps,thanks.

[RichardTaylor]

You can work it out.
If it is a minimum sized field with a 70M boundary to the pitch distance.
Cricket field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

and you are using a 200mm lens on a 1.6 crop camera then the vertical FOV will be 4.2M (a very tall man will only fill 1/2 the frame)

http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/calc.htm


A 500mm lens will almost fill the frame with a very tall man (2.1M high)

[Canonball]

Thanks Richard,very informative if your a math person,not me tho.So basically i'm going to be to short, if i want a player taking up the frame with my equipment.So how would it be if i added a 1.4 extender please ?

[RichardTaylor]

Won't help.

The vertical field (height) of view will be 3.5M for 300mm on a 1.6 crop camera

550mm will give you 1.9M

This may give you an idea. (not my pic). Taken with 300mm lens on a Nikon D2x in high speed crop mode..
I think the Nikon (I am a Canon shooter) high speed crop factor effectively makes it a 600mm

First time at Cricket - Steve's Digicams Forums

[Canonball]

Brilliant,thanks Richard i was hoping to get the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup games.But i won't have my lenses by then,so looks like bangladesh game in Feb here in ch-ch.

[Nocojoe]

Your best bet would be to rent it and try it out for yourself. I know this is not the advice that you want to hear, but then you will know exactly for your situation what is best. You can try renting from your local camera shop, or rent it from the Internet.