Glad I could help! I know when I ask a question, it's always nice to receive replies from folks who have had actual hands on experience with the gear you are asking about.
For your reference, I'm attaching two Canon RP samples from a triathlon I was hired to take photos at last summer, shot under a dark canopy of trees so the lighting was not as good as when I was shooting the swim portion of the triathlon. Both shot at ISO 100... one image was taken at F/3.2 for 1/500 second, the other at F/2.8 for 1/800 second.
Hey, Gary! I recently had your advice in mind re: getting myself a nifty fifty to capture crisper shots on the basketball court. I did buy a 50 mm f/1.8 before the latest basketball tournament. Not every image was a keeper, but the ones that were keepers were much clearer than the ones I took with my other lenses. I am trying to budget for a lens with f/2.8. I’m still playing around with the settings with the new lens.
I started shooting in shutter priority mode (min shutter spd 1/500), auto ISO (ISO speed range 100-1600), 1-point AF, 1-shot AF. My struggle was not being able to tell if those shots were clear enough when I reviewed them on the touch screen, so I switched to sports mode (kept 1-point AF). I feel like I took the easy way out with sports mode, but I felt like that was my safety net. I included 2 images below.
**Disclaimer: my daughter critiqued my editing on images from previous tournaments. She didn’t like how bright I made them, so I fought every urge to increase the brightness on the images below. She’s the client in this scenario, right? 😉
