>>4402256I shot with OP’s lens for a few years, trying to do what you’re talking about but for surfing & mountain biking. It’s very sharp, but it’s big and clunky, which limits where you’ll actually want to use it somewhat, and the zoom just ends up being an annoyance bc it’s never zoomed where you want it when you need it, you always have another adjustment to make & miss the action. In the end the best lens that I found was the nikkor 14mm aspherical prime on a d850. That was & probably still is my favorite rig for action. When I look back on the last 20 years of shooting, nearly all of my favorite shots were with that lens. I could write a page on why, and why the common criticism of that lens doesn’t matter, but gd, I really miss that setup. The circular edge distortion & matte can actually be added in post when you want it. The rest of the time, you have much more usable images with a lot less wasted pixels and great character w corner distortion & vignetting to work with.
