Tom, Your tale was incomplete. Which lens do you like best for basketball?
I have thought the 180mm f-2.8 would be a natural for that application. /jnm
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> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tom Scales
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 6:20 PM
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> Subject: Re: [OM] I, well, sort of, accidently bought, um, some more
> equipment.
>
>
> Sorry, I'm a top quoter <g>.
>
> Our lives are quite interesting.
>
> - Both our daughters are adopted.
> - They are 8 months apart (as of this Saturday, for four months,
> I have TWO
> 8 year olds. Just wait until I have 2 13 year olds)
> - My oldest is 3'11 and white
> - My youngest is 4'7" (at 7!) and black
> - My wife is disabled and uses a wheelchair when we're out.
>
> You should see us at the mall. People have no CLUE what to think of us.
>
> They're a handful. They love each and hate each other, all in the same
> afternoon. They're a lot of fun though. We just finished the basketball
> season. This year they were on the same team. My youngest plays Center and
> my oldest is the Point guard. She has a wicked shot. She competed in a
> free throw competition and tied for first in the 8-12 age bracket. They
> shot as many times as they could in thirty seconds. She made 8 shots in
> thirty seconds. My youngest is the rebounder. She is completely fearless
> and understands the concept of blocking out. She does not like losing the
> rebound.
>
> They're team turned out to be pretty good. While, in theory, they don't
> keep score, the, uh, parents do. They went 6-2 and in their wins, were
> pretty dominant. The point though, which I support, is to have a lot of
> fun, learn a little about the game, and learn a lot about being a
> part of a
> team. It is a huge program, run by the Optimist club. In the 2nd and 3rd
> grade girls, they had a couple hundred girls. They run all the sports
> programs. They have the largest sports complex in Texas. They played
> soccer in the fall. The sports complex and run 36 soccer games and 10
> softball/baseball games AT THE SAME TIME.
>
> All with volunteers. The complex is in prime residential real
> estate and we
> guessed that it is about 3/4 mile by 1 mile. I can't even guess
> at the land
> value.
>
> I'm sort of the unofficial team photographer. I didn't shoot as
> much of the
> basketball as I should and what I did, I haven't posted yet. I'm not very
> good at it, but I shoot a lot of film, and at the end of the season put a
> packet together for each girl on the team. I try to make sure I
> get a couple
> shots each game of each girl. They seem to really like it.
>
> Kids sure are work though.
>
> Tom
>
> OM content -- probably not much, but all the shots were with OM equipment.
>
>
>
> > Tom, if you think 7&8 is bad, wait until the daughter gets to be
> > a teenager. It will drive any father crazy, as I am struggling
> > with mine right now. It's not that she is "bad", it is just that
> > she is more than a handfull and I am constantly under stress ("But
> > Daddy, I don't understand how I can be giving you stress."). I
> > still keep pictures of when she was 5-6 around to remind myself
> > how sweet (and simple) life was back then.
> > -Dan
>
>
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