06-22-2011, 11:53 PM
deckeda wrote:
[quote=August West]
Stick with a lasso, and when they're teenagers, a bear trap.
He has both already (an SLR) that fully addresses all the performance issues but for whatever reason doesn't want to use it for those situations. Maybe it's a big Nikon SLR, not a small Nikon SLR.
I've got a neighbor who works with 2 D300 cameras and didn't realize how much smaller and lighter the entry-level D40/60/3000/3100 models are---any one of which would still be easy to carry and perform far better than any non-SLR for casually (but satisfactorily) taking snapshots of kids moving fast.
yes, well, it's a D50 which is relatively "small" but when you add a lens, it's just as big as most other cameras and simply too big and heavy to treat like a p/s camera. I'm rather tempted to get a 4/3 camera but even they, too, start to get big with the lenses. so, it looks like a p/s something like the G Canons if I want flexibility or the Elph series. I still have a very capable Nikon 995 but it's slow to use compared to most modern cams.