R7 with RF 70-200 F2.8 for sports

Alastair Norcross wrote:

That looks great. I also always used to use JPEG for sports, until I started using DXO Photolab. Their RAW lens correction modules are so good, extracting so much detail, that I feel I'm missing out if I don't shoot RAW. I did shoot a track meet with my R7 and EF version of the 70-200 in JPEG back in the summer, and was quite pleased with the results. But I kept wondering if they would have looked even better if I'd shot RAW How does the speedbooster affect AF speed? And I would probably also be using EFCS indoors, unless the lighting cooperated. I have found that quite a few indoor lighting setups work just fine with e-shutter, but you have to try it out first to check. You certainly wouldn't want to shoot a whole game, or even a half, only to find that you have ugly stripes across all you images!

DXO, unfortunately, doesn't exist on Linux.  And for processing several hundred shots, throughput is important.

AF speed and accuracy seems comparable to what I got shooting football and soccer with my RF 100-500.   I still need to fine tune my settings, since I sometimes lose focus to the background; your idea of a narrow vertical zone sounds right to me.  I also wouldn't want to use ES with a fast moving sport like basketball; I've seen enough shots in similar situations with soccer and volleyball that I expect basketball would be problematic.  Many of the most interesting shots involve players cutting horizontally across the frame or passing or shooting.

I always take some test shots before a game during warmups, even if I haven't changed anything.  If I were going to try ES, I would certainly do plenty of those.