Looking for a NEW Point & Shoot For SPORTS

Hi,

Right now I have 3 Canon's - and have been using my SX200IS Canon for my niece & nephew's soccer games.

Several have come out blurry so looking for a new Point & Shoot with a Great Zoom.

ANY Ideas??

I am not sure where I should be posting..

Thanks.

no point and shoot is up to the work of shooting sports.. sorry.

Agree with canonnoob. If you want really good action shots you need a camera with a higher fps/better focusing than a point and shoot can offer. I used to shoot sports with Powershot S3 a few years back. Got a decent shot every once in a while, but upgrade to an SLR and it'll make things much easier.

When I got into digital, I thought the same thing, and ended up returning the P&S to the store cause it couldn't do what I wanted. Sports is one place in photography where money makes a difference. Even an entry level DSLR with a basic long zoom lens will do better than any P&S, but you will want to upgrade that as well. Suggested options: a) 7D with a 70-200 2.8; b) buy photos rather than a camera

P&S wise I would look at pansonic high zoom ones like FZ series.

It won't be long and a P&S WILL be capable of decent sports shots!

Biffbradford wrote in post #11042527
It won't be long and a P&S WILL be capable of decent sports shots!

Agree ... in good light.

And after 5+ years there may be a new technology where the low light performance from a small sensor P&S may rival a 20D without the images looking like mush.

Unfortunately no P&S generally makes the grade for sports due to the speed of the action. This makes it very hard for the focus to keep up with the action especially as most P&S cameras use contrast detection which is slower than phase detection which is used in DSLRs.

You may have some success with it but I would not reckon in getting a good amount of keepers with anything like fast action unless it is in brilliant light.

I beg to differ with some of the responses here. Prior to buying my first DSLR, I took a Canon A560 to 8th grade football played on thursday afternoons. Before taking the camera out, I dug into the manual and read up the manual feature settings the camera offered and did some shooting.

If I shot during daylight and stayed away from digital zoom, the results were surprisingly good. Even cropped shots taken from the track around the playing field netted some pretty good results.

Obviously, you're not going to see results anything CLOSE to a 7D and 300 f/2.8L prime, but from what the original poster is asking--shooting kid soccer played during the day (my assumption) a P&S is capable of producing clear, crisp shots that can be cropped and acceptable for printing.

Original poster needs to read the manual, understand the capabilities of the camera, learn how to use the gear, practice and see if the results are acceptable to him or her.

OTOH, using a P&S indoors for basketball is futile. Simply not up to the task. Outdoor soccer or football during daylight games is a different story.

dave

I agree with Dave. I used to be a bird photograhers and I started with panasonic FZ1 a mere 2MP p&s camera but it gave me 420mm f2.8 lens in that small body. And we could do birds in flight with it. The quality was no match for my first dSLR kit (10d and 100-400L) but what would you expect for $350. The dSLR kit at the time was more than $2500.

You going to miss lot of shots with p&s as shutter lag is big problem but you get decent pictures for keepsake. If I had more budget I would do cheaper camera like 20/30d and some 70-300mm range zooms.

I agree wth undrcover I used to shoot sports with Powershot S3 back in 2006. move up to a 40D now 1dmark2n once you go 1D you will never look back.