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- Real Name: Nicholas Iriberri
What zoom are you considering and what is the closest you expect to be to your subjects? Indoor sports or outdoors (that affects your likely iris and therefore depth of field. Will your camera be supported on a tripod?
I’ve recorded lots of rugby outdoors from the sidelines and the action gets way too close and too fast to carefully focus but I’ve use primes in the 25mm to 50mm range and spin the focus ring hoping for the best. A manually focused telephoto is impossible to use well consistently when people are running across the camera frame only a 2-3 meters away.
When I’d use the Fujinon 20x7.8BRM zoom well that’s much more feasible with superior results since you have the very wide end of the lens effectively doing most of the focusing for you with the large depth of field. And the telephoto to pull in action the length of the field.