A team building meeting of the photo staff was scheduled for 2pm but at 1:50 I was an hour away from the office finishing an assignment. When I finally got back the meeting was over.

The high school basketball game I shot was delayed for an hour due to late refs. Knowing the gym would be dark I had planned on using my 50/1.4 lens. But it was quickly obvious that the 50 was too loose. I switched over to the 70-200 to get closer but lost two stops, dropping my shutter speed below freezing.

Right now we’re stuck with gear that doesn’t provide the low light capability of modern cameras. My camera is now two generations behind the current technology so I’m now calling my camera a grandfather.

My settings for basketball were far from optimal: 1/250th at f2.8 and horrible noise at ISO 3200. I shot as many pictures as I could, hoping that not only would a great play happen but that I’d luck into a frame of it that wasn’t horribly blurry. But luck vanished and hope died. There was nothing worth posting today.