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Phil,
I've shot soccer for many years now. Your choice of the 7D is good. Its fps is where you want it to be. There are two items in the thread I would caution you on.
1. The crop factor is NOT a multipler. Said another way, it does not do the same as a teleconverter, i.e increase the reach of a lens. It is no different than using photosop in PP to crop out a piece of a photo. You then have to blow it up to see it better which does not by itself make it the same, in fact the resolution captured is now spread over a larger area.
2. Use of the 100-400L. This lens is fine in mid day shooting where there is PLENTY of light but attempt it on a very overcast day, or late in the afternoon and you'll be starved for light therefore limited in shutter speed. Its max aperture tends to be light limiting in less than bright conditions. Yes there is ISO compensation, but even that has limits. In the end the ability to achieve fast shutter speeds will suffer. 1/500 is a minimum, soccer is covered better by keeping closer to, or over, 1/1000.
f/2.8 lenses are the norm. That in a 70-200 with a 1.4tc will yield a 280 mm rig operating at f/4.0. This will cover a closer portion of the pitch under a number of conditions. You'll have to remove the tc and deal with a closer section of the pitch in order to compensate for low light.
Best Regards,
Matt
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) and just wondered what the minimum and cheapest gear I would need decent shots of Sunday footy.
