What's the Best??

Question

What is the best camera for animal action shots?? My price range is around $400. I am thinking about going into horse photography.

Answer 1

Action photography will require at least a DSLR (so you don't have to deal with shutter lag that all P&S cameras have to one extent or another -- from 0.8 sec to 3 sec ... worse when using flash)

That said look for a good DSLR camera with a lens like a 18-55 mm lens (Nikon D40 is but one) for under $470 on Amazon dot com

You will eventually want to get a lens like a 55-200 mm for shooting from the rail.

Answer 2

You could get an SLR, but also consider an SLR-like point-and-shoot camera like the PowerShot Pro S5, which is around $300.

http://www.dealfiesta.com/canon-powersho...

SLR-like cameras have many of the features of an SLR, but aren't nearly as expensive. I own one (Powershot Pro S3) and am in love with.

If you want to go SLR, these are some of the more popular models:

http://www.dealfiesta.com/tag/slr/

If you are new to photography, it may be better to get the SLR-like camera and get an SLR once you know your stuff better. An expensive camera is useless if you don't know how to use its features or don't have the skill.