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I have an Olympus 2500L but need more than the 3x telephoto. My daughter plays fast pitch softball and having a 6/7/8x telephoto would be a "good thing". Concerns with the 5700 would include the ability to capture action with adequate lighting. Apparently the 5700 does not do well in low light, however, I typically don't shoot low light. However, if I want to capture a pitcher chucking a 60MPH fastball from 40 feet, I need the ability to capture more than a blur. Lastly (gawd... this is too long...) it appears.... appears that 5700's are dropping in price. Apparently Fuji is coming out with a 7000 (?) that will be very competitive in functionality but at a lower price. Good rumor but can't believe a word until it actually is available and tested. Regardless, I can acquire a 5700 for $650-670 new (post rebate), and possibly as low as $600. Suggestions ? Go for it or wait or ????????
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Do share where you can get it at that price.
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We have a Nikon 5700. We have two Nikon film SLR cameras and bought the 5700 for a good price as our "introduction" to digital photography. I am disappointed in the lag time between depressing the shutter button and the actual shutter release with the 5700. I recently photographed a martial arts tournament and was having trouble capturing the action. I almost had to retrain myself how to take an action photo with this new camera, because it did not work the same way I have been used to my whole life with my film cameras! If I fired the shutter as the time that seemed natural, I always missed the shot due to the lag time I previously mentioned. I kind of had to anticipate when someone was going to throw a kick and then press the button, instead of pressing the button when the kick initiated. I would not recommend the Nikon 5700 camera for shooting sports.
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![]() ![]() Not sure if this would help but the Minolta 7hi and the nikon 5400 both have a 64meg frame buffer so they can rapidly(for a digital P&S) take a series of images, I think about 1 a second. Still bad compared to a film camera, my eos's can eat a 36 exposure roll of film in under 6 seconds. If you want high speed operation for fast unpridictable action you should be looking at midrange dSLR's like the Nikon d100 or Canon 10d. Or if you have too much $$ lying around the Canon 1ds. :roll: Maybe now that the p&s have decent enough resolution the manfacturers will look at improving their operating performance in the next generations. |
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How about when you use some of the sequence features like continous low, continous high, multi-shot or ultra hs? Do you still have the same lag problems?
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