Suggestions for a good but budget friendly camera bundle?My kids play basketball, football, baseball,and softball. I am CLUELESS with cameras/lenses.
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We recently got the EOS Rebel T5i and are very happy with it. Even though this set comes with 4 lenses, we really only use two ... telephoto and the one for portraits. For kids in sports, this is a great camera - up shutter speed and put it on the burst setting and you can get great quality still photos of action shots along with the set of them hitting the ball or catching the pass. We've used it for golfing and have some great series of pictures for driving the ball and sinking the putt!
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Thanks for your reply. I need a good lens to photograph swim meets and football, both for children. Maybe I should consider the 70-300. I want sharp pictures.
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I bit the bullet and went with the Sony. Mainly because Circuit City was offering it for $329. Also because it had a better fps and ISO capabilities, if I remember correctly. The 4 gigs of memory set me back $59 though and the case was another $20, so that put me at $415 after tax. I must say that this thing takes awesome pics. I got it mainly for my kids sports. The 2.2 fps and sports mode are nice. The image stabilization seems to do a good job to on other pics. I have not used the remote control yet, but plan on usnig it to try and get some close ups of birds or squirrels, etc on a day when I have nothing else to do.
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It does, hope you like it. It's a great camera, I no longer have it but got great shots from it. It's perfect for sports(pre focusing of course).
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Jeryl, the Xsi's 9 point focusing system and 17% faster shooting speeds (over twice as fast for RAW) should prove very useful for sports shooters. I have to warn you though that you're eventually going to want a "fast" (i.e., wide aperture) telephoto for dimly lit games and these can be more expensive than the camera itself.
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I think this will give you a lot more than the option to take "kids pictures". :) I'm a novice abd really bright it for it's videography caPabilities. it is almost professional grade without the price. the add-ons however are rather disappointing. (sorry)
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Vivatar SF3000. It's crap. IMO. I'll tell you what I use in this package. Camera Body (of course), EF 75-300, EF50, extra batteries, extra charger, and the memory card. Other than that the rest of the stuff is low quality. It's sitting on a shelf. I'm very happy with the camera. Though I did break down and buy a Speedlite 600EX-RT (Love it!), Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 (awesome wide angle lense), Three Legged Thing "Brian" Tripod. ( this is my 7the tripod and the best one that I have ever owned) along with a few other things. I'm a newbie but on thing that I have learned is that to do "it" right....you have to spend some cash. It's not a cheap hobby by any means. Good Luck! I hope this helped a bit.
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I am a BEGINNER and I took very good pictures of my boyfriend playing football with his nieces and nephews. It was easy to set it to the sports setting and got some great "play by play" shots. I have a lot to learn, but I am really enjoying my camera.
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The camera is very good but I have never tried it with sports. I use it only for domestic photos. Regarding the lens pack I felt it was useful for me.
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Hi Mr. Hewitt (I wonder if we have any relation?) Anyway, for a true beginner (as in you've never used anything but a point-and-shoot) I'd recommend you get a Nikon D40 and an 18-200 VR. Keep the 18-55 kit lens, you'll find it lighter when your just taking snapshots of the family or whatever. The D40 is an excellent starter camera, it has almost all the tweaks of this much more expensive camera without the weight and cost. The D300 has many advantages over it, but I really feel you'll learn a lot faster with a simpler camera, and step up to this when your ready. I actually started out with a D40 a bit over a year ago, it made starting out quite fun. The 18-200VR will follow you as a great lens on the D300 too, and you can use any newer AF-S lenses on it. If you have older AF-D Nikon lenses lying around that you want to use, a D80 is also a good place to start. It's easier to make the custom tweaks you'll learn about in your photography classes on the D80, but it still has Auto modes as well to get you started. Checkout www.kenrockwell.com, especially his recommended camera page. He's a bit more eloquent than I am. And I wouldn't be so fast to recommend the D60 to anyone, it's just the D40x's guts (plus active D-Lighting, but without the other enhancements of the D300/D3) with a different name stamped on it. I wouldn't recommend the D40x or D60 to anyone, they exist to fill a price point to compete with Canon. If your eyeballing either, jump to the D80 and don't look back.
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Thanks for the info. I don't think I'm quite ready to pay that kind of money for a lens for a camera that I paid $600.00 for. May as well upgrade the camera and keep the lens. I do appreciate the reply.
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I do. My kid plays volleyball and basketball. It has a small aperture so you wont get great shots in low light games. In the gym great!
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I ended up going with Cameraland (check them out on eBay). Quite a bit less and I got it Christmas day!
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Yes, the zoom and picture quality are great features to have when shooting sports photography. It also has a feature where the camera anticipates the photograph to eliminate blur. I've used it for basketball and bowling (in low-light conditions) and it works great.
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Carl, that's funny. I have a very nice looking Mamiya 645 Pro TL and a Zenze Bronica ETRS II (medium format film systems) sitting on my shelf. I did give one of my Nikon D2Xs cameras to my son in law, so hopefully he'll appreciate it and get into photography.
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I bit the bullet and went with the Sony. Mainly because Circuit City was offering it for $329. Also because it had a better fps and ISO capabilities, if I remember correctly. The 4 gigs of memory set me back $59 though and the case was another $20, so that put me at $415 after tax. I must say that this thing takes awesome pics. I got it mainly for my kids sports. The 2.2 fps and sports mode are nice. The image stabilization seems to do a good job to on other pics. I have not used the remote control yet, but plan on usnig it to try and get some close ups of birds or squirrels, etc on a day when I have nothing else to do. I bit the bullet and went with the Sony. Mainly because Circuit City was offering it for $329. Also because it had a better fps and ISO capabilities, if I remember correctly. The 4 gigs of memory set me back $59 though and the case was another $20, so that put me at $415 after tax. I must say that this thing takes awesome pics. I got it mainly for my kids sports. The 2.2 fps and sports mode are nice. The image stabilization seems to do a good job to on other pics. I have not used the remote control yet, but plan on usnig it to try and get some close ups of birds or squirrels, etc on a day... » Read More I bit the bullet and went with the Sony. Mainly because Circuit City was offering it for $329. Also because it had a better fps and ISO capabilities, if I remember correctly. The 4 gigs of memory set me back $59 though and the case was another $20, so that put me at $415 after tax. I must say that this thing takes awesome pics. I got it mainly for my kids sports. The 2.2 fps and sports mode are nice. The image stabilization seems to do a good job to on other pics. I have not used the remote control yet, but plan on usnig it to try and get some close ups of birds or squirrels, etc on a day when I have nothing else to do. « Show Less
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Did anyone recently managed to buy an additional camera, and how/where? (likes of UK/Middle East, otherwise amazone USA) We need the extra camera for the 2nd baby shortly. Don't care about the sound splitting issue. Please reply!