I’m not a photographer. However I’ve shot literally 10’s of thousands digital images of everything from tractor pulls to kid’s sporting events - many under difficult lighting conditions.
I own “prosumer” level superzoom cameras by Canon, Olympus and Sony (my current “primary” camera is an older model Sony H1). I’ve been pleased with every one. Presuming you are on a limited budget I’d recommend something along this line.
Be looking for the following features:
- 10x (minimum) OPTICAL zoom. Pay no attention to claims about digital zoom range – it’s only marketing fluff.
- Optical image stabilization. This is absolutely required for hand-held sports photography. And it's a godsend for low light photography.
- User adjustable ISO settings. It’s same as using faster ISO film in a film camera. However keep in mind faster ISO’s give grainier photos. My experience is ISO 400 on a digital camera is marginal – faster ISO’s are so grainy as to be pretty much useless.
- User adjustable white balance. Let’s you “tune” the image color balance to compensate for the the myriad wierd hues of indoor lighting so prevalent in gymnasiums, etc.
- Shortest possible shutter lag time (the time delay between when you push shutter release and the exposure is actually taken). Under poor lighting some digital cameras require upwards of 1 second from the time the button is pushed and when the shot is actually taken.
- User selectable continuous autofocus. This significantly reduces the shutter lag above. However continuous autofocus can chew through batteries at an alarming rate.
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Like Howard suggests poke around in Steves Digicams. You will find more good info (including objective camera tests) than you can ever possibly need.
Also If you can, borrow a camera and try it out for yourself under your "real world" conditions. You'll know very quickly whether it's gonna do the job for you!
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