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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joseph Bautsch" data-source="post: 8843" data-attributes="member: 654"><p>I have the 70-300mm lens. It's not going to give you the speed you need for night time football even with an ISO of 3200. With this lens I would stick to day time shooting of football games. An f/2.8 lens will give you a couple of stops more room to work with for night games and getting stop motion. A shutter speed of 1/250 is ideal for stop motion but you can also get decent stop motion using 1/125. It's not as good as 1/250 but it works. You might give some thought to using a 50mm, f/1.8 lens. It's not an expensive lens and at f/1.8 you should be able to shoot at 1/250 with a reasonable ISO level. Maybe not the telephoto you want but with a little patience and allowing the action to get closer you can get some really good shots.</p></blockquote><p></p>