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An owner of a Canon T5i who needs action shot advice

Started May 11, 2018 | Discussions thread
rmexpress22 Senior Member • Posts: 2,304
Re: An owner of a Canon T5i who needs action shot advice

Is renting an option? Your lenses are going to make it challenging to shoot in a dark gym. Your AF system will also struggle keeping up with motion in that type of scene.

Ideally, you'd rent a body and lens for this type of job. But if you can at least rent a lens, the Canon 135mm f/2 would help with AF speed and the low light setting.

Other than that, don't be afraid to go high ISO. A noisy, sharp picture is better than a blurry picture. Keep your shutter speed at 1/500 or higher. You can do lower shutter speeds if you only get things like jumping shots where there are moments with little motion but those aren't going to be the more exciting shots.

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