High Shutter Speed for Sports photography...?

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Hi there, I have a Canon Digital Rebel XT and I recently just purchased a 75-300 mm lens. I know ppl get pissed when someone asks a photography question but bear with me...

I'm trying to take high quality sport photography specifically tennis and whenever I put it on like "TV or P" mode to take a lot of shots per second it always comes out really dark. Obviously that would mean that I need more light right? But the only problem is that I'm going to be inside (Madison Square Garden specifically) and want to get like a sequence of five different points in a players one stroke.

Do you have any suggestions as to what I can fix, change, do or not do?
 
You would find a sports zoom more useful for sports work - you pay a lot more money for that extra couple of f-stops, but they make a big difference.

The key problem here is that even if you set an inappropriate shutter speed, insufficient to let enough light in to the camera to expose the image correctly, the camera will still keep on shooting. So the issue is underexposure.

The way to avoid this is to understand how exposure and the scene relate to the meter and when necessary, open the aperture or shift to a higher ISO setting.

The following tutorials are free and they ought help you solve the problem:
http :// www .image-nut. com /spip.php?rubrique86
 
Any camera can be used for sports. I use a Nikon D50, with 2.5 fps. The photographer just has to work around this.

Anyway, the reason your images are so dark is because the f-stop is not wide enough. I think its about f4-5.6, right? You might consider the Canon 70-300mm f4 L which runs about $550. If sports photography is your thing, you might even saving up for the 70-200mm f2.8 L, and/or a 16-35mm L. Since these lenses cost a lot of money, in the short run, you might just look into getting a monopod, which will allow you to shoot at a bit longer shutter speeds, which will give you more light.

As for the sequence of shots that you want to do, this will all depend on the camera's fps and the buffer. If I'm not mistaken, the XT has 3 fps, but I'm not sure about the buffer. The 3 fps is adequate, but if the buffer is not that big, you'll have to wait for it to clear.
 
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