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What camera should I buy?
I need a new camera. I don't care how big it is but it has to have fast focus, fast shutter, it needs to be fast. At least 14MP. And its optical zoom needs to be equal to or better than my old camera's 24x (it was a superzoom). I don't want to pay over $300 but I will pay a bit more if necessary.
3 Answers
- ?Lv 76 years ago
The Pentax K50 is only $294 at bhphotovideo.com for the body only. Since you want/need a fast performing camera, no other type of camera (point and shoot, bridge, or mirrorless) can operate and focus as quickly as even the cheapest DSLR.
I'd go with the Pentax K50 for now because going cheaper means getting something that won't meet your needs. So what's the point of buying several bad cameras which cumulatively cost more than just one that meets your needs?
- Land-sharkLv 76 years ago
Needing a long zoom forces you to stay with superzooms or bridge cameras which typically have small sensors and consequent problems with accurate focusing. The best a DSLR (which has phase-detect light sensors rather than the contrast detect ones) can do is about 18x. That zoom lens alone costs more than your budget.
See if you can still find a Fuji HS50EXR bridge camera... probably the most DSLR-esque one of the last 5 years.
Learn to help your camera by pre-focusing and metering (usually half press of shutter and recompose) where the action will be.
