agility_dogs
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Reged: 24/07/2008
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Hi all, I am a newcomer to photography so need some help. I have been looking at the Nikon Coolpix P80 & Olympus SP570 cameras but have seen mixed reviews & the jargon is confusing me. I have up to £300 to spend (I know not megga bucks but we all have to start somewhere)
I show dogs & do agility & the photos will need to be printed up to A4 & used on web sites...The camera needs to have a good zoom in order to take photos from across the ring, excellent action shots with cont shooting to catch the dogs in movement. easy to use! / all automatic.. I heard the Olympus zoom is manual on one site & clumsy? do anyone have any other suggestions or experience of these cameras? would be great if it also had a video record function (pic quality not so important for video) 
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NorthernNikon
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I'm afraid that you might be disappointed in the results you get in a compact given the subject and the fact that you want to print up to A4.
I shot a few dogs doing agility at the Great Yorkshire Show and even with a DSLR with an equivalent focal length of 420mm at f/2.8 struggled to get a frame filling shot. This one is a crop from a landscape format.
If you have £300 to spend then you're choice will be either a compact with a longish equivalent focal length but little control, or a DSLR without a wider length and no video mode but with more control (someone posted a link to the Nikon D40 for sale on Amazon for less than £300 or you could go 2nd hand) The DLSR route would at least allow you to upgarde the lens as funds allow. I could recommend a compact though as I don't have any real experience of them other than my wife's Ricoh R6 which is nice but I've never tried to capture a fast moving dog with it.
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Fen
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could recommend a compact though as I don't have any real experience of them other than my wife's Ricoh R6 which is nice but I've never tried to capture a fast moving dog with it.
Are there any compacts with the ability of doing such things? AFAIK they all have shutter-delay to some extent which would mean you'd miss the 'action'
A DSLR is probably the only option 
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NorthernNikon
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A DSLR is probably the only option
I suspect that you're right Fen. I suppose that as the majority of of the lag compacts suffer from would be the auto-focus, pre-focusing and gettign an eye for the timing of a shot might increase the photographer's hit ratio, but even then I doubt the results will be what the OP would ideally want.
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