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[la_rainette]

OK, I am looking mostly at jae and ecaterin, but any advice is totally welcome!

As you guys know all too well, I spend a lot of time in arenas watching my daughters skate. I'd like to be able to take good videos and action shots of my kids/teams at competitions or even during practices.

Keeping in mind that many of my photos will be shot indoors and at high speed OMG, is it possible to find a really good point-and-shoot camera that would do both good action shots and good movies, or should I get two separate cameras? Should I invest in a body + lens kind of photo camera, and if yes, what should I buy (I'd like to buy something that doesn't actually cost as much as a bloody car)?

Thoughts? Advice? PLEASE HELP ME?

Thank you!

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[jae]

I think this little guy would totally do you! I have an earlier version of it, and the video is AWESOME, and it also takes great pictures. It's not a "point and shoot" in the sense that you mean it, but it's not an SLR, either, and it's got a fully automatic mode if you don't feel like making it jump through hoops or whatever.

I wouldn't recommend it for Tadpole because it's so heavy, but for you it would be awesome.

-J

[la_rainette]

Oh yeah, it's a strong contender... *sighs*

I also poked around a bit, and I am really tempted by the new sony a35, though I would need a zoom lens to go with it, which suddenly takes the price from "tempting" to "how nuts are you prepared to be?"

The thing is, I really would like to have an SLR. Even though two days ago I did not even know that it was called an SLR. *headdesks*

Mmmmm.

[jae]

I'm actually going to suggest that you not get an SLR. Because the Canon I linked to really can do everything an SLR can do minus a few things, and it can do a lot of things really well that an SLR just can't (like video). Really, it's your need for video that cinched my suggestion to you. You're not going to get an SLR that does video like that camera does.

-J