GB Sports Photographer & The Panasonic LUMIX S1
Compact camera for sports photography?
Quote:Fair point but missing the point.
Your average amateur can't haul a 300 2.8 into the cheap seats, so they have to use a smaller unit that they can get past security with attracting attention. On the point of the phone, why would you want to print it at A3, it's a phone but the photos will on the news blog long before they arrive from the SLR.
Horses for courses.
Again it depends on what you want surely
I consider myself an amateur even though I shoot for magazines, and earn from my work, does that mean I want second best, no, as an amateur I DO and DO carry at least a 70-200mm f2.8, why should an amateur not if they can "afford it".
Ok some can not but still the poster has not said how much they can afford, a new compact can cost as much as a pre used DSLR and tele.............
Why would you want to "get past security", no mention of that anywhere
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Modern compacts have come on in leaps and bounds in recent years, they will never match a DSLR but some are still pretty usable for sport.
I won a Stylus 1 in an EPZ comp last year and its pretty surprising what it can do as a compact, it has quite a respectable 28-300mm constant f2.8 max aperture and pretty nippy focusing, its not a bad all rounder as compacts go.
I won a Stylus 1 in an EPZ comp last year and its pretty surprising what it can do as a compact, it has quite a respectable 28-300mm constant f2.8 max aperture and pretty nippy focusing, its not a bad all rounder as compacts go.
I guess a chess competition may be shot with any camera 
As with most things its more about the person than the kit.
As Paul says, Stylus 1 pretty handy for this. F2.8 28 to 300 (600mm if digital *2 used).
Manual focus and exposure available.
Take a look the the F1 pics I shot at Slverstone.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/63811242@N03/sets/72157650630354585
Manual focus and exposure available.
Take a look the the F1 pics I shot at Slverstone.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/63811242@N03/sets/72157650630354585
