I finally compared burst mode to single shot for my kid's soccer game

Burst mode gave me 50 nearly identical shots of my daughter running, but my friend's single shot with a faster shutter speed caught her mid-air with the ball perfectly sharp. The difference was shutter priority at 1/1000 instead of relying on continuous AF. Has anyone else found burst mode overrated for action shots?

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zara_perez6210d ago

Burst mode just fills up my card with junk honestly. I shot a whole game on burst once and ended up with 400 photos of the same run. My buddy nailed it with one single shot at 1/1000 and it was way sharper. The burst ones all had that slight motion blur around the edges. I'll take one good frame over fifty okay ones any day.

the_reese10d ago

one good frame over fifty okay ones" - I mean yeah but is it really that big of a deal? You're shooting a kids soccer game, not the World Cup. Nobody's gonna notice a little motion blur except you pixel peeping at 400% zoom. I shoot burst all the time and just pick the best 3 or 4 and delete the rest. Takes like 2 minutes. Why stress over getting it perfect in one frame?

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