Gentlemen, again, thank you. I am learning a lot, and you are making that process both efficient and enjoyable.
What I hear you saying is, if one of my primary goals is to adequately photograph indoor sports, I need a $700 camera and an $850 lens. Ouch. Not gonna happen at this time.
Could I get away with something like an
85mm f/1.8 and then cropping virtually everything I shoot? Or is that lens overly specialized to have as an investment? Does adding a tele-converter to something like that make any sense?
Is the downside to using something like the f/4 200mm and stepping up the ISO to 800 (or even 1600) that I will get unacceptably higher amounts of noise?
It sounds like buying the best 70-200mm zoom I can afford is a practical approach, but I'm concerned that getting something like the inexpensive f/4-5.6 that Mark linked earlier may not help me at all.
You guys weren't kidding about the lenses being the expensive part. Photography makes Home Theatre look like a cheap hobby.
