How do I choose a good Digital SLR camera for sports photography?
My main area of intrest is taking action shots and sports photos. Can anyone help or give me some suggestions to what I should be looking at? I’m planning to buy, but I don’t have an unlimited amount of funds, if you know what I mean. As a matter of fact, I’m kind of strapped. Any suggestions on the best deal with greatest performance?
I really believe buying a camera is an individual choice.
The person needs to read alot of reviews on cameras and learn as much as they can from the internet.
Go to the store and hold them and try them to see what they feel like and how they take pictures.
I can only give a suggestion of what to look for in a new digital camera.
Good Luck
my suggestion
go to yahoo shopping
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digital camera GUIDE
be sure to check titles on the left side
the guide should answer your questions
Digital cameras are too slow for action shots, Get a good digital video camera and edit the video into stills, then take your pick.
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Sports photography is one of the harder subjects to shoot for a camera. Especially if it’s indoors.
What you need is a camera with a fast auto focus, and some lenses that are bright, and have a decent zoom. Unfortunately, that is not cheap. You can probably get by with a $700 camera (Nikon D40x, Canon XTi) but you’re going to spent a lot on good lenses.
If your outdoors with lots of light I suppose you could get by with something like a Sigma 70-300 lens for under $200, but if your indoors at all you’ll need something like the 70-200 2.8 from Canon for over $1000 or Nikon for over $1500.
PS. Using a video camera like the first person suggested will NOT get you good quality pictures. If you’ve ever seen frame grabs from movies or something they never look good. Top end DSLR’s are plenty fast for shooting action, they’re just expensive.
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I agree the first person to answer was way off base.
You can probably get by with an entry level DSLR as long as it has a good burst mode for sequence shots. Where your money will go is in the lens – or lenses if your budget allows.
A Canon 28-300 f3.5/5.6 zoom will be close to $2000; the 70-300 f4 /5.6 Image Stabilization will be around $600. Unless you need a wide angle the 70-300mm would be the better choice. You can find similar lenses for Nikon or Sony or Pentax.
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Consider a gently used Nikon D70, D70s, or D50. I use a pair of D70 cameras for WNBA, NBA, and AAA Baseball games. I bought both of them used, both from Ebay. I then bought a 70-300mm lens and then got a 75-300mm that’s been super sharp.
http://www.spmsportspage.com/published/spmarticles/the-sacramento-monarchs-v.shtml
Hope this helps.
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Amateur & professional photographer for 45+ years.
I really believe buying a camera is an individual choice.
The person needs to read alot of reviews on cameras and learn as much as they can from the internet.
Go to the store and hold them and try them to see what they feel like and how they take pictures.
I can only give a suggestion of what to look for in a new digital camera.
Good Luck
my suggestion
go to yahoo shopping
digital cameras
digital camera GUIDE
be sure to check titles on the left side
the guide should answer your questions
References :