What settings on your camera do you use

Just wondering what everyone uses when shooting football games at night. I will be up in the stands but not to far away from the action and was wondering if I could get some tips from everyone

thanks in advance

Way to open ended of a question. Need details like camera gear your using, lighting of the stadium and such. The recommendations will be different based conditions.

Longest zoom ya got/widest aperture ya got/highest ISO ya got/fastest shutter speed ya can muster.

sorry, i will be using a 70 200 is lens 2.8 canon 40d. I also have a 85 1.2 lens but not sure what it would do. The lighting should be pretty good being at a college game and all

cdifoto wrote in post #6239997
Longest zoom ya got/widest aperture ya got/highest ISO ya got/fastest shutter speed ya can muster.

Yeah what he said!

It also helps if you're sitting close to the cheerleaders!

Yep, open up to f/2.8, crank ISO to 1600 (or 3200), and pray your shutter speeds are fast enough to stop the action. (in Av mode of course....)

ok thanks, i have never shot in av mode, usually just the sports feature but using this new camera this year for a first time, use to use a 30 d and was happy with it

egordon99 wrote in post #6240080
...and pray your shutter speeds are fast enough to stop the action. (in Av mode of course....)

If they are not fast enough, you can coax another full stop by shooting ISO 6400. Just set EC-1 and in post processing push exposure +1. The image will be noisy but the 40 cleans up rather nicely with something like noise ninja.

for some reason i am unable to get mine to go over 1600 iso

I'm going to have to try that.

There's a custom function that you have to enable to allow you go to an ISO of "H" (which is essentially ISO3200) I'm pretty sure the manual tells you exactly the name of the function to enable.

Doemasters wrote in post #6240272
for some reason i am unable to get mine to go over 1600 iso

Excellent advise John. You just opened my eyes.

Pseudo ISO 6400, ie. Shot at ISO 1600 with the 40D in Av Mode, using an old 300/4 non-IS L, through a glass window on a dark rainy day. Exif should be intact. This should give an ISO 3200 equivelant. Then in ACR, bumping the Exposure to +1.00, export a JPG at Q=10, open that and run NeatImage, sharpened the Red Channel with USM at 50.0, 0.3, 0.0.

Byte size: ZERO | Content warning: NOT AN IMAGE

Byte size: ZERO | Content warning: NOT AN IMAGE

egordon99 wrote in post #6240570
There's a custom function that you have to enable to allow you go to an ISO of "H" (which is essentially ISO3200) I'm pretty sure the manual tells you exactly the name of the function to enable.

It's ISO expansion CFN3. Its on page 154

This thread interests me..

I dont suppose to you can do an ISO expansion on an Xti can you?

Sure, just set the ISO to 1600, set EC to -1, and bring up the exposure in your RAW editor of choice (ACR/DPP/etc...)

dmmiller wrote in post #6241054
This thread interests me..

I dont suppose to you can do an ISO expansion on an Xti can you?