I have had the opportunity to shoot basketball in Leuven, a small city in Belgium. The Harlem globe trotters were there the first day and the second day I was there I could shoot a match against Mons, another Belgian city.
More pictures and explanations will follow soon...
The demonstration by the Harlem Globe Trotters (this was during their world tour) was amazing but the light was terrible (more than one stop lower than for a normal game)
They played basket-football...
Another Harlem shot
The next day, at the same place, two
Belgian teams played, Leuven against Mons. The light was better (almost
one stop extra) because TV was there.
The best results were
with a 85mm f1.8 lens mounted on the D200 camera @ISO800. Shooting
almost fully open allowed me to get the right shutter speed to freeze
the action.
I also used a Sigma 70-200 f2.8 and a 50mm 1.8 on the D70 but my experience was that 50mm was a bit wide and that the 70-200 zoom could only be used up to 100mm because f2.8 gives you a slow speed if you don't want to push you sensitivity above ISO800 (difficult on a D70 without getting a lot of grain in the pictures)
