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Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!
Im not saying your way does work or that it's wrong. Going off my personal experience shooting sports for a daily newspaper, the way-better-than-me sports editor that came before me, and the myriad other photogs I worked with and around. They all went Tv because Av wouldn't guarantee them stopped action. And it's a lot easier to deal with exposure issues in post processing than fix motion blur.
Everything other than sports, I shoot Av or M. It's clearly the winner for everything else.
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Again, 2.8 plus the ISO setting is going to yield the fasted shutter speed the camera can offer. It's sort of forcing the limits, in reverse, but with more predictable outcomes in terms of picture quality. And if you're shooting in a lower-light situation, you can just set the Tv to 1/2000 and think the camera's going to find a aperture that'll work. It'll try, and i fyou have the ISO set to 800 or 1600 (ugh!!), it might find one that'll work. But I find that if you go into a night football game, you set the ISO to 800, set the Av to 2.8, and let the camera figure out the speed.
Will it always work, on every shot? No, but that same shot with Tv set will either error out because you have the shutter speed set to 1/1000, and it can't find an aperture that'll work, or it'll take it and it'll be just as wasted a shot because it'll be dark. Or you can spend the whole night shooting at 1/60 or 1/250 and know you won't often get an error at those snapshot speeds.
I guess it's pick your poison. I say shoot wide open and let the camera find the highest possible shutter speed.
Then again I'm Navy, not that I was a pilot, but I sure did know a few, and their crazy asses (on final approach to a carrier) use the aircraft's angle to adjust speed, and the throttle to adjust height. Kind of the opposite of what you'd expect.. Yeah, I'm like that...