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

[Kms1]

These shots are amazing! I usually shoot in raw at about 1200 ISO and change it depending on the light.  When the light is too much I sometimes move it to TV.  But thank you  for all of these great suggestions!!! 

[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!

[wq9nsc]

Kim,

I always shoot in RAW with fixed shutter speed and aperture and set ISO to auto to complete the exposure triangle.  Except when you need greater depth of field (i.e. posed team shots), most action sports shots will be shot with aperture wide open and you really can't go below 1/640 to freeze football (and most sports) action.  Even at 1/640, there will be some situations causing motion blur which is why I generally choose 1/1,000 as my shutter speed BUT lens, lighting conditions, and camera ISO performance can force you to accept a slower shutter speed.  However, there is a lot of work that can be done with noise in post but once motion blur is baked into the image at capture, it can't be removed so I will always take noise over motion blur when that choice is forced by conditions.

Rodger