Express Action Sports

I am looking for a good camera to take fast action shot basically to use during games like basketball, volleyball, football etc. The camera must be able to take indoor sport photo as well. Please help me out. Thank you.

Good quality action photos in low light situations means you need a DSLR – no P&S will really perform well in those circumstances.
Outdoors on a bright day just about any camera will do a reasonable job.

okay so now i don’t have a budget cause i am willing to save up. All i have ever wanted is a very good H-D camera/ video recording thing that can record all my hitting and serving in good resolutiion and quality. And when clicked once that it can have the option to take many photos. I have always wanted a good camera. No matter what the cost is does anyone recommend anything that they have used before and has been just absolutely amazing

If you want good video, use a good video capture device that can deal with fast action. This means the video needs to be low compression when stored to the media in the camcorder. In the consumer area, the lowest compression format is DV/HDV. This is typically recorded to miniDV tape, but many miniDV tape based camcorders can connect to an external flash memory device (Sony and FireStore make them) to record the same low compression DV/HDV format.

Other low compression video formats include DVCPRO/DVCPRO HD (Panasonic AG-HVX200), MXF (Canon XF300), MOV/h.264 (JVC GY-HM100 series) and DVCAM/HDCAM (Sony PDW series).

If you want to capture good still images, use a good still image capture device.

A video capture device – like a camcorder – is designed to capture video and audio. It does that well and still image capture is a "convenience feature".

A still image capture device – like a point & shoot or dSLR (or similar) camera – is designed to capture still images. They do that well and video/audio capture is a "convenience feature".

There is no single device that does both really well.

I will presume that your volleyball is the indoor sport version. I would suggest that you get the largest lens diameter and imaging chips you can afford. The poor lighting (not for you – playing, but for the camcorder) needs the large lens to allow in what little light there is available to the LARGE imaging chip. If you want to spend less than $1,000, the Canon HF S series with 58mm lens filter diameter is about as good as it gets. The $1,800 Sony HDR-FX7 would be a lot better. The $3,300 Sony HDR-FX1000 would be able to deliver the "good resolutiion and quality" you want. The Canon XHA1 will do a fine job, too.

In any case, please learn to use the white balance. It will help – a lot.

As for stills, a decent point and shoot or dSLR from Nikon, Sony or Canon will be just fine.

I shoot Water Polo, so I need a camera with a high shutter speed and rapid/continuous shot (at least 3-4 per second). In Canada, Polo is an indoor sport, so it has to produce a quality picture under artificial light. Lastly, if it could be waterproof (or at minimum, strongly water resistant), that would be ideal.

I’m a coach, shooting this for things like player cards, pictures to sell and marketing. I’m no pro, and don’t know much / anything about focal lengths, and definitely don’t want to get into changing lenses. I’ll be right at pool side, so there is some splash risk. If I could be in the water, that would be even better, but I have a camcorder for that – although it takes pathetic stills.

A buddy got an advance-release-model Sony down in Vegas 4-5 years ago that does a solid job, and it cost him $350 at the time. It does a decent job (especially with the continuous shot), but isn’t wonderful under artificial light, and has a tendency to blur.

I’m not looking to make sports photography a career. My day-job is in Graphic Design, so once I have the picture, I can definitely take care of the rest of it. I’m bankrolling the entire club at my expense, so while I understand the passion and desire to accept nothing but the best from Photography Professionals – in this case, all I really need is "good enough to get the job done WELL". We have a 10-year-old Olympus that is good on portraits, but horrible on action (especially indoors), as well as a new GE X5 that has been utterly disappointing.

MUST Have:
Continuous Shot
Water Resistant
Good Indoors
Optical Zoom (the higher, the better, of course)
Fast Shutter Speed / no fuzzy-edges
No changeable lenses

These are the links to waterproof cameras that I have.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/Q209waterproofgroup/
http://www.digitalcamera-hq.com/digital-cameras/new-waterproof-cameras_roundup.html
http://www.waterproof-camera.org/

The Canon D10 is my choice.