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What is a good camera for sports photography (under $400)?

For under $400 what is a good action camera for taking pictures at my sons baseball and football games?

You have a problem … P&S cameras under $400 or even more suffer from shutter lag … in sports and action photography, that means missed shots

You will have to increase you budget to $550. That will get you a DSLR with 18-55 mm lens (over 80% of your shots of the family, friends and travels) and a 55-200 mm which you will use for all your sports and action photography.

The $150 will be well worth it, since the cameras sensor is over 15x the size of most P&S cameras and eventually you will be able to add more lenses to your system.

The Canon SX-10 has about the least shutter lag of the P&S cameras, 0.079. The flash shutter lag takes a little longer, at 0.78 seconds. At just under 0.08 seconds, it is close the the longest shutter lag found on DSLR’s At $399 US with a 20x zoom, it could be a good choice, but in the end, what you buy has much more to do with your goals as a photographer.

  1. Elvis
    July 7th, 2012 at 07:59 | #1

    canon sx10
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  2. fhotoace
    July 7th, 2012 at 08:30 | #2

    You have a problem … P&S cameras under $400 or even more suffer from shutter lag … in sports and action photography, that means missed shots

    You will have to increase you budget to $550. That will get you a DSLR with 18-55 mm lens (over 80% of your shots of the family, friends and travels) and a 55-200 mm which you will use for all your sports and action photography.

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000SDPMEI/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&s=photo

    The $150 will be well worth it, since the cameras sensor is over 15x the size of most P&S cameras and eventually you will be able to add more lenses to your system.

    The Canon SX-10 has about the least shutter lag of the P&S cameras, 0.079. The flash shutter lag takes a little longer, at 0.78 seconds. At just under 0.08 seconds, it is close the the longest shutter lag found on DSLR’s At $399 US with a 20x zoom, it could be a good choice, but in the end, what you buy has much more to do with your goals as a photographer.
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  3. Colorful L
    July 7th, 2012 at 08:54 | #3

    I would suggest Nikon D40 DSLR.You can get it for $413 a little bit over your budget but that is a good camera that take good pictures.
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000KJQ1DG?ie=UTF8&tag=bakugan.games-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000KJQ1DG
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  4. VINTAGE MUSIC
    July 7th, 2012 at 09:07 | #4

    Under $400- yes ther will be next shot delay which is important for sports shots.. For point and shoots I suggest the Canon SX10 IS.
    10 megapixels, 20X optical zoom, image stabilizer, aperture/shutter priority, has viewfinder and is excellent on rechargeable batteries.
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  5. Johncool
    July 7th, 2012 at 09:14 | #5

    Nikon P80. This by far is the best camera under the $400 range, perfect to take pictures at your son’s baseball and football games.

    Here are some key features: 18x zoom (you will be able to take closeups of your son while he is playing)
    – 10 MP (more than you require)
    – Large 2.7 inch screen
    – Distortion control (required for taking motion pictures such as pictures of games.
    – Reasonably priced.

    I found the best price at Tigerdirect through dealjuggler.com. Here is the link for the product.

    http://www.dealjuggler.com/Nikon-COOLPIX-P80-Digital-Camera—Only-$299.99.html

    visit http://www.dealjuggler.com/index.php?catid=9 for other best digital camera deals.

    Hope the above was helpful.

    Enjoy…
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