EOS R10 Indoor sports pics are grainy and blurry

[Agi2025]

Hello, 

I'm in desperate need of some advise, please. I was taking High School wrestling pictures that turned out super grainy and blurry and would love some help. A couple of pictures attached. My setup was the following: 

Canon R10 with a 70-200 lens. TV setting. I was experimenting with the shutter speed between 250 and 500 and different ISO levels. When I used a higher shutter speed (1/1000) it was making the images very dark and even bumping up ISO the image looked dark.

I didn't use a monopod but had the camera on my knees for support. I will use a monopod for the next tournament. 

I was shooting in RAW but it wouldn't let me upload the RAW picture despite a CR3 file so I had to rename it to a jpeg.

Appreciate any help I could get to have better quality pictures next time :-). 

Thank you in advance for taking the time to provide some feedback. 

Agi

[SignifDigits]

I agree with the experts here - to my eye they look fine.  Of course I remember actual grain on film being kind of normal in gym lighting.  I like FV mode personally and see the R10 has it - lets you go manual or automatic in any direction you want.  Kind of one step above manual mode and you can choose auto for ISO and aperture to dial in an exposure time that you like then you can tweak depth of field/aperture a bit manually and/or try bracketing to get an idea what's working and what's not in the gym you're in, perhaps.  Adding my thanks for sharing your pics and your experiences.

[Agi2025]

Thank you Brian for the detailed info. Will look into enabling safety shift with ISO. 

[Agi2025]

It's the first time me using this camera and still learning the various functions. I don't recall selecting this exposure compensation but will look into it. Do you typically recommend having EC at 0 regardless of the setting (TV or Auto?). Thank you!

[Agi2025]

How cool - thank you for diving deeper into my issue :-). 

In terms of the ISO Noise Reduction - should I select "Low" instead? 

[p4pictures]

ISO noise reduction setting is only applied to JPG images by the camera. DPP will initially apply noise reduction to the RAW based on tips setting though. So you’ll see smoother less noisy images in DPP with the higher noise reduction settings, but you can still adjust them as you choose. Other software like photoshop and Lightroom don’t take any notice of the iso noise reduction setting. 

[Agi2025]

Thank you Brian. I did some editing to get rid of the grainy issue in DPP and it helped.