Mirrorless R7 Lense for Sports

[Kms1]

Hi all, 

Any insight you can give is greatly appreciated!

I have a canon mirrorless R7 and shot sporting events for my child.  What is the best lenses I should use for football?  Would the rf100-500 mm f4.5 or should I look into the new rf 200-800? Or something  else ? I currently have the RF 100-400

Thank you for your help

[March411]

Have you thought about shooting raw or increasing the jpeg image size through the Canon menu? Capturing a larger file size will help.

https://cam.start.canon/en/C005/manual/html/UG-04_Shooting-1_0030.html

Also, I am not sure how much you enjoy post production, for me it's been part of the process for over 40 years so I enjoy the finish. I took this one image from your post and processed it a little through PS and Topaz Photo AI. The two young men, one on the left and right I lifted the shadows on there faces in PS and then ran sharpen overall and face recovery in Topaz. I know life can get busy and post production isn't always possible due to time constraints but I thought it would be nice to explore options. Topaz also give you the ability to upscale but producing larger images out of the camera is always a better option.

I had to reduce the image quality to add it to the post, the IQ was better.

[Kms1]

Thanks, I enjoy editing will try the topaz ai currently only use Lightroom 

[March411]

Lightroom and PS are basically the same and Topaz can assist with noise and sharpening. I know Rodger mentioned higher ISO's and maybe he can talk about which application he uses to knock down the noise a bit.

And Rodger, beautiful images of the game!