Tips for shooting sport - DSC HX400V

[macman2905]

Hello Community, I like to shoot my kids playing Rugby, and I have a couple of questions I'd appreciate your advice on. 

1) Image quality

Winter in the UK is often a gloomy time of year. How can I setup my HX400V best to capture crisp images of fast moving rugby action in less than perfect light? So far I leave it on Auto, and often get grainy or blurry results.

2) Storage Speed

I have a class 10 SD card. I chose it to solve this problem, but it doesn't seem to help. During a game I take lots of photos. However I often miss the perfect shot because my camera is busy saving the last shot to the SD card. Is there a way to speed up the storage of the image?

I'd welcome any general tips for shooting sport. I really enjoy it, and all the other parents either don't bother or use their phones for photos, which are no good if you need to zoom in. I love my HX400V, but when I can afford it I plan to upgrade to the RX10. It's just sooo expensive I can't justify it for my needs.

Thanks for reading!

[HannahEd01]

Hey macman2905,

My advice is to select ISO beforehand, you can go early and select the best setting by taking few pics, you can find the setting here: https://helpguide.sony.net/gbmig/45306861/v1/en/contents/TP0000518203.html?search=iso