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Originally Posted by KillerK
Thanks guys, some of the places I am limited in size of lens. Not sure if you can get a pass to use a longer one if you aren't a sports guy. But I wanted to also shoot nascar and maybe travel to europe to do soccer.
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Sports and action photography is a bit of a pain because it does require you to shoot with fast shutter speeds, meaning less light can enter the camera. This means you'll need to be able to open your iris ("f stop") as much as possible.
This in turn means that your lens will need to be as "fast" (=able to open up wide) as possible, and the f/2.8 lenses are pretty much necessary, particularly if you are shooting indoors, on overcast days or when it gets a little dark outside.
And since you'll typically be far away from the action you'll def. need a long telephoto lens.
There are some additional tricks like DX cropping on full frame Nikons and so on but that's probably a bit too deep to worry about unless you're doing it professionally.
So in short there's no way to get exactly what you want without a nice long telephoto.
But if all else fails you can certainly get the longest lens you are allowed to bring and then mess with it in post (Photoshop).
If you do that make sure you're getting a camera body with high resolution (>10M) but NOT a full frame sensor body. You'll want to take advantage of the crop factor (1.6 on Canons) which basically means a EF lens of say 100mm is actually like a 160mm, so you'll have more reach.
That's not the case with a full frame sensor camera body though.