Indoor swimming gala picture taking

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Hi, can you advise me on a lens to enable taking decent pictures of an indoor swimming gala?
I use a canon 400D camera.......have a 18-55 lens plus a 70-300 zoom, just wondering if they will be any good in low light?
 
70 -300 will be the better lens, but might be a bit slow being F4 and use a CPL.
 
It depends on where you will be standing to an extent. I'm assuming you are not poolside, so the longer zoom is probably your only option.

You may need to re-condsider using a CPL though as they will typically drop the light a further 1 or 2 stops, and if you're already in low light, that's probably going to be a bigger issue than any glare hotspots.

Finally, make sure you have permission to even take a camera in there! One of my kids used to swim competitively for the county some years back, but we were never allowed to take cameras in so I have absolutely zero pictures of my own of him competing :-(
 
Furtim said:
You may need to re-condsider using a CPL though as they will typically drop the light a further 1 or 2 stops, and if you're already in low light, that's probably going to be a bigger issue than any glare hotspots.
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Good point.
 
Furtim said:
It depends on where you will be standing to an extent. I'm assuming you are not poolside, so the longer zoom is probably your only option.

You may need to re-condsider using a CPL though as they will typically drop the light a further 1 or 2 stops, and if you're already in low light, that's probably going to be a bigger issue than any glare hotspots.

Finally, make sure you have permission to even take a camera in there! One of my kids used to swim competitively for the county some years back, but we were never allowed to take cameras in so I have absolutely zero pictures of my own of him competing :-(
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I bet they did not "police" this rule for people with small point & shoot cameras, yet targeted people with "serious" looking cameras like SLRs.
 
As Adrian said make sure you are allowed, which would be rare. The only place i know that allow cameras in the pool area is centre parks. you will need to shoot at least 500/sec but 1000/sec would be better. A noisy sharp image is always better than a clean blurry one, so crank up the iso.
 
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