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I have a Canon EOS-3 with the 70-200/f2.8 L USM and the 85/1.8 USM
lenses...I have been looking into either getting a quality film scanner or
upgrading
to a Digital SLR camera. I have two kids that are pretty good athletes (one
in
HS and one in College) -- and I shot a lot of film at these games. I'm not
happy
with the results I get at the film labs (terribly inconsistent). I'm
thinking that in the
long run that the digital SLR is the way to go (I don't think I want to
spend my limited
free time scanning negatives) -- I guess my question is...is the D30 capable
of
shooting sports...I'm getting some real mixed reviews out there. My problem
is that
especially in HS gyms...the lighting is awful. Low light I'm hearing is
Canon's downfall
on the D30. I know the D30 was suppose to be a "prosumer" camera, is there
any
word on the Canon "pro" model that has been rumored? Is a switch to Nikon
and
the D1H the only option I have?
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-I shoot motocross with a D1, now a D1X. I think if you don't get close enough
to use a flash you won't be happy with digital. One of our top moto photogs on the film side has all Canon stuff, and he has
been trying a D30 outdoors for action. He isn't happy with it after a couple
of weeks of trying, but he does like it for shooting pics of his dogs and kids. The new high-end Canon coming out will probably be really good, but Canon is so
far behind the curve by the time it comes out too many people will have
switched over to D1 series cameras. -I wanted to convert from the film-cams as well - but on a reasonable
budget. What I found is that the digicams are terribly slow amd often
unreliable with their focussing action. For sports, esp. indoors they
are close to useless. You can hardly follow fast action - and the
usual prefocus is next to impossible. The damn things won't let you
shoot until they 'feel' they are ready. I have one that shoots in
continual mode - series of 8 shots that does fairly ok - but too much
guessing and hoping. I like automobile racing and have several 128MB
cards full of exhausts and rear-views of Formula One cars. So I have
retired mine for taking along on hiking trips and stills, and did some
weddings with it. For the 'important stuff' I still use my trusty and
infallible Pentax LX or newer Nikon systems. If you can, try to borrow or rent one for a week and play with it -
that's the only way to find out if it suits your needs.
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