A good beginners camera.
 

I want to get into photography, mainly of sports (Mountain Biking, Rugby possibly), and would like a Digital SLR. I have roughly £200-£300. What is the best I can get for that price?

Oh and a quite small one would be better as I would have it in my bag whilst riding.

Hello Harry,

Welcome to the forums. Now you say you'd like to get into photography but you're on quite a restricted budget. For a DSLR I think you'll have to look at a secondhand model for that kind of money. Otherwise, your other best option would be to have what is called a bridge camera. It's a little bit bigger than a compact and comes a lens with approximately a 15x - 25x zoom, that is good enough to get you close in on the action.

The other thing to consider is a DSLR comes with an ever increasing footprint as you will find yourself buying ever more equipment to go with it as time passes. With a bridge camera, you cannot interchange the lenses for starters, so the amount of additional equipment you may buy to use with it is much much more limited.

Hi Harry

As Ian ha already said, I think that for your budget (and if space is an issue) you would be much better off with a bridge camera.

Have a look at the Canon Powershot SX20 IS, the Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ-38 and the Canon Powershot SX1 IS.

[QUOTE=Harry-MTB;6545]I want to get into photography, mainly of sports (Mountain Biking, Rugby possibly), and would like a Digital SLR. I have roughly £200-£300. What is the best I can get for that price?

Oh and a quite small one would be better as I would have it in my bag whilst riding.[/QUOT


hi mate

iv just started doing the same thing, as i live right near Cwmcarn i go over there and take some photos after iv ben out riding!
i just bought a Pentax KM with 2 lens from Currys for £359 on offer but some how they only charged me £329 some how!! lol
as for rugby i havent had a good go yet as im coaching now at the tender age of 29 and i dont think the players would like me taking pictures and shouting at them!


Chris

On a recent trip to Dalby i took a Canon 400d sigma 10-20 and a flash ......you can get very close to the action so you dont need a long lens the . You need the flash because you will find that on a lot of the runs through the forest its a bit dark and try and get the flash off the camera as you will get better results.

@ shoot_me wish i lived near Cwmcarn

David

[QUOTE=browndog 2;6748]On a recent trip to Dalby i took a Canon 400d sigma 10-20 and a flash ......you can get very close to the action so you dont need a long lens the . You need the flash because you will find that on a lot of the runs through the forest its a bit dark and try and get the flash off the camera as you will get better results.

@ shoot_me wish i lived near Cwmcarn

David[/QUOTE]


take a look at my photos there are from last weekend!! i ride it most weeks both XC and DH so now starting to takes shot of others

nice shots .......shot number 5 is a bit over processed you can see halos in the tree line

Cheers

David

iv only just started! lol