Recommend a digital SLR camera good for everyday use AND sporting events in a gym & outdoors?

Need to move to a SLR camera - looking for something in the mid-range ($500/600) if that is doable. Want to use it for everyday type indoor/outdoor use - as well as fast action sporting events in gyms. The later is where I have had problem getting clear pictures w/ previous digital cameras. Also - need some ease of use. As a busy working mom I don't have time to read a 200 page book on how to use the camera. Basically striving for a good all around camera w/ clear pics from wrestling season this year. Have been considerign teh Nikon D40 but wonder if it will do enough for me.

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Take a look into the Canon XT but my next pick would be the Fuji (PIX) S9600 28-300 zoom, though it is not a DSLR it is an awesome advanced digital. Check out all of your options at www.bhphotovideo.com

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With your budget, I don't know of any other camera that will be better than the Nikon D40. I have heard many good things about the D40, however, the lens supplied in DSLR kits will probable not work for what you want to do. I'm not sure how dark those indoor sporting events are going to be--I'm thinking your lens choice is more important than the camera body.

I assume you want those indoor shots without flash, so remember, make sure you don't limit the ability of your DSLR with a bad lens. You want a very large aperture--2.8 would work well. And stick with GOOD brands of lenses.....money counts when buying lenses, if you pay less, you get less. You might end up spending twice as much, or more, for the lens than the camera body.

Hope some of this info helps...Good luck!
If you don't have time to READ %26amp; STUDY the Owner's Manual then how do you expect to learn how to use the camera?

Digital cameras do not posess "magical powers" that allow you to say "Take a great picture" and get a great picture. You must know how to operate the camera to get the results you want. In order to know how to operate the camera you have to READ %26amp; STUDY the Owner's Manual.

Would you buy a car with a manual transmission if you didn't know how to drive a car with a manual transmission?
WHILE A GOOD SLR GIVES GREAT PICTURES , YOU CAN'T GET ONE WITH A BIG ZOOM FOR ANYWHERE NEAR YOUR PRICE RANGE OF $500 - $600 . MIGHT I SUGGEST A DIGITAL WITH A GOOD BUILT IN HIGH POWER ZOOM . YOU CAN GET A 10 X , 12 X , 15 X 18 X OPTICAL ZOOM ( DON'T WASTE TIME ON DIGITAL ZOOM ) WHAT I BOUGHT IS A SONY DSC - H7 IT HAS A 15 X OPTICAL ZOOM AND 8.1 MEGA PIXELS , IT HAS A BURST RATE OF AROUND 2 - 2 1 / 2 FRAMES A SECOND . OLYMPUS HAS ONE 7.1 MEGA PIXELS ( I THINK IT'S 550 UZ ) THAT HAS A 18 X OPTICAL ZOOM AND A BURST RATE OF 15 -FRAMES A SECOND . THESE ARE MEDIUM SIZE CAMERAS AND EASY TO USE . TO GET ANYWHERE CLOSE IN A DSLR WOULD BE IN THE THOUSANDS AND BE VERY LARGE AND BULKY . AS FAR AS SLR'S GO IN 35 MM I BOUGHT MY FIRST PRO MODEL IN 1970 ( CANON FT - QL W / 55 MM 1.2 LENS ) AND THE ONE I STILL USE IN 1982 ( CANON A - 1 W / 50 MM 1.2 LENS ALSO A 35 - 200 TOKINA ZOOM , WHICH THOSE 2 LENS WERE USED 95 % OF THE TIME AND 3 OTHER LENS THE OTHER 5% ) . IN ALL I'VE SHOT WELL OVER 10,000 PICTURES, ALL BEING MANUAL FOCUS CAMERAS WERE INSTANT USE ( NO LAG TO AUTO-FOCUS ) . ANY NEW CAMERA WORTH BUYING WILL HAVE A LARGE INSTRUCTION BOOK , THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF VARYATIONS OF MODES TO USE . GET USED TO READING , EVEN THE DO IT ALL ITSELF CAMERAS TODAY HAVE TO BE SET FOR MODE , TYPE OF ACTION , LIGHTING , AND SO FORTH . THE MORE YOU READ AND EXPERMINT THE MORE VERSTIAL YOU WILL BECOME . EVEN THE BEST DSLR WILL NEVER HAVE A 10 X - 18 X OPTICAL ZOOM YOU COULD AFFORD . THE BIGGEST DRAWBACK ON AUTO FOCUS IS THEY HAVE A LAG TIME UNLESS YOU PRE FOCUS - NOT ALWAYS POSIBLE WHEN YOUR SON WILL BE ALL OVER THE MAT .
$500 to $600 isn't "mid-range." That's an entry-level price.

For that price, you're looking at a basic digital SLR body with a basic 18-55mm lens. I would suggest adding a monopod to that to help steady your shots.

If you need more telephoto, then you'll need to add a 55-200mm VR lens, which is another $150. The standard 18-55mm lens is roughly equivalent to the 3x zooms found on standard point and shoots, so if you find you need more "zoom," then you'd need to get the 55-200mm lens.

To help get sharper shots, increase the camera ISO to 800 or 1600 when shooting indoors in poor lighting.

The D40 will work just fine, set the camera to fully automatic, the ISO to 800 or better, with automatic white balancing, and you should do much better than with your previous digital cameras.
check out the nikon d40x
Any of the entry level DSLRs will work for what you want. It's the lens that you will need that will get you the photo you want. The kit lens provided with the camera will give you decent photos outdoors but the same lens won't for indoor fast action sporting events, you would need a fast lens for that type of shooting and depending on how far you are from the action , you would need a fast zoom lens. You really should make time to read the cameras manual, it'll help you to take better photos.
I will point you towards the Pentax K100D. It is in your price range including the 18-55 kit zoom.

The big advantage to the Pentax over Canon and Nikon is that the shake reduction (VR, IS) is in the camera body rather than the lens. This means that the SR works with any lens you put on the front of the camera.

A second advantage to the Pentax is that it will work with any lens you can mount on it. Even a 1956 screw mount lens will work on the Pentax with an adapter - of course you cannot get auto focus with a manual focus lens, and the exposure is manual only, but the lens will work just fine.

I have the big brother to the K100D, the K10D, and I am using two 1976 lenses on it (in manual focus and exposure), a Pentax SMC-M Macro 100mm f/4 and a .Pentax SMC-M 400mm f/5.6. I also have a Pentax SMC-A 70-210mm f/4 which will auto expose, but is manual focus.

I bought the Pentax 400 mm f/5.6 lens some years ago for Cdn $330, and have recently seen one advertised for US $325 on eBay.

Although Pentax's current lens line is a bit limited, there are so many Pentax lenses available used, that there is no problem getting the lens you want, and usually at a reasonable price.

The creation account in Genesis 1 conflicts with the order of events that are known to science?

In Genesis 1:1, the earth and "heaven" are created together "in the beginning," whereas according to current estimates, the earth was formed about 9 billion years after the universe began its current expansion 13.7 billion years ago.

In Genesis, the earth is created (1:1) before light (1:3), sun and stars (1:16), birds and whales (1:21) before reptiles and insects (1:24), and flowering plants (1:11) before any animals (1:20). The true order of events in each case was just the opposite.

The creation account in Genesis 1 conflicts with the order of events that are known to science?opera house

That's because Genesis is comprised of two allegorical creation myths - one belonging to the northern kingdom of Israel, and one belonging to the southern kingdom of Judea. Both were entirely allegorical, and were not meant to convey historical events.

The creation account in Genesis 1 conflicts with the order of events that are known to science?dream theater opera theater

consider that the first day (with sunlight, etc.), was created on the fourth day...that should tell you something...
It doesn't stop at genesis 1 either.
Nice try and darn good facts but I bet you don't get any converts.
it's called faith
No.

Evolutionary theory contradicts the truth.

Show me a bone pulled out of the dirt that has a date stamped on it.

There aren't any.

Dates are ascribed on the basis of "best guess". All they know is where they found it, they don't know how old that dirt is! There is no objective method of calculating a date.

Were you aware that carbon dating PROVES beyond a shadow of a doubt that the earth is less than 30,000 years old? IT'S TRUE!!

If the earth were more than 30,000 years old, the atmosphere would not be INCREASING in radioactive carbon 14, yet it is!

Equilibrium would have been reached and the radioactive carbon 14 saturation of the atmosphere would remain constant if the earth were more than 30,000 years old, but it has not!

The Bible is right, your theories are wrong, you're on the wrong side of fact.

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You should read Robert Alter's translation of the book of Genesis. It's a literal translation that focuses on translating the words %26amp; ideas, not the theology behind it. You'll understand how much theology influenced the English translations that we have.

By the way, there are 2 accounts of the creation in the book of Genesis: chapter 1 and chapter 2. They're completely different because they were both ideas adapted from 2 previously existing religions. Genesis is full of stuff like that.
How do you know the "true order" of things? What you are calling scientific is just somebody's wishful guess interpretation of evidence based upon his predisposed dogmatic religious belief in evolution.

We Christians, (and Jews for that matter), are perfectly well within our rights to believe Genesis 1 - 11 literally if we want to. I am perfectly satisfied to believe that it is a valid scientific account.
see http://www.bcbsr.com/survey/genint.html
Says who. Some scientist who can only make a vast speculation upon something he wasn't there to witness. And can neither fathom.

Life doesn't spring about from nothing. No matter if it were 3 years ago....500 years ago..., million years ago. 4.5 million years ago.... A billion years ago.

The simple fact is you people are easily confused by a lot of big words and calculations - speculations and assumptions (atheists do this a lot. Darwin was one of the best).

Common sense states that 0 + 0 + 0 =you guessed it (I hope) NOTHING.

God bless
Ask God, He was there when He created it all, I'm sure he can clear it all up for you...

oh, and by the way, I like how when describing your "true order of events" you use the phrase "current estimates," as in someones guess at this precise moment which is subject to change if someone else can argue convencingly enough that their guess is better.

Why do you think that some people are haunted by certain events or tragedies for the rest of their l

I believe that certain graphic images of tragic events in which the person was witness to, are indelibly etched into a person's psyche. An image that is impossible to forget no matter how hard you try.

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Delilah.

Well while you may be right, I feel a strong connection to the "Other Side", one in which has a much stronger control over us.

You could be right. In any event when events are so traumatic, so heart wrenching, so overwhelming that one feels they are loosing their mind //or psyche..... then yeah, your right !! When other folks feel that strongly about such tragic events then its very impossible to shake off those deeply embedded feelings, no matter how hard one trys, to do so.

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Perhaps not forget, but in time, think of the tragedy less and if a love one was involved remember the good things of their life. You must have a reason for asking this, and I am sorry for whatever is hurting you.
usually it affects a person if they or a loved one or friend as had a tragedy like a bad accident or a horrible death some people just have a hard time, but the best thing to do in that case see a councillor or your family doctor.
People are usually haunted by horrific events when these events have had a major impact on their alter-ego. The human mind is the best video camera there is, once it captures something that has changed the past and future of its existence it keeps replaying it. These images aren't meant to be forgotten but they are meant to be dealt with.
I'm 14, and last year my bestfriend died. I remember first walking into the church, and seeing the edge of the coffin she was in. Then walking up to it and looking down and seeing her..lying there. I remember how I tried and tried to get her to wake up but she wouldn't, and how she just looked. How cold her skin was, and how lifeless she seemed. I have thought about that moment every single day since it has happened. I'm hoping that memory will fade, but I don't think it will. I remember everything about it. How all of the flowers smelled, how it was kind of cold in the church, I remember hearing her aunt cry from the hall way. I think the things that mean the most, stay etched in our minds. Like, our first kiss, the first time you go to a new place or do something new, the first time you meet someone new, ect. ect. I hope the good memories will last a life time, and the bad ones will fade.
yes, tragic situations stick with people. no matter how hard people try images and words just stay with them the rest of their lives.

Florence, Italy! I will be in Florence the day before "Martedi Grosso." Are there any even

I realize that Venice is known for celebrating Mardi Gras or Carnevale, and that's where I'm headed; but, the day before, I will be in Florence. Is there a section of city where events take place? What types of events?

Florence, Italy! I will be in Florence the day before "Martedi Grosso." Are there any events?opera sheet music

We're talking about next year, so it'd be better to wait a closer date in order to ask for that :)

You can take a look at these site, for istance

http://www.tuscanjourney.org/events-in-t...

http://www.resortsinitaly.com/carnival-i...

http://www.vivifirenze.it/cgi-bin/news/g...

but for sure the best is asking when you're in Florence :)

Marted矛 Grasso is just the end of Carnival; celebrations and events actually start by the end of January / beginning of February and some doesn't end on Marted矛 Grasso but go further, according to local tradition (like Carnevale Ambrosiano in Milan and nearby)

Florence, Italy! I will be in Florence the day before "Martedi Grosso." Are there any events?shows opera theater

event in florence occur often but without much notice. seriously its not that clear which ones are to occur and which ones arent. the reason why is because ive been studying there since 2002 and i notice a lot of event occuring on random days and i ask people about it and neither did they know that it was to occur. you see a lot of marching bands but with the historical outfits and the medieval look, the funny thing is, theres always someone at the beginning carring a flag or a banner wiht the title of the what..organization? 'comune'? association?? they always have some title of some town and no one except one or two people know what it is. even my bf, being from florence knows what on earth each event is when it occurs. same thing with holidays. there are tons of holidays all year round and when it comes i always ask him or an italian friend, 'ah! thats cool, so what are me suppose to celebrate?' and they always respond, 'oh uhh...some saint i think??' i ask, 'well which one? whats the story behind it?' and they always respond, 'i have no idea..' surprising, eh?

so your asking what events occur in february during the mardi grass? all i can answer to you is, i have no idea, you have to be THERE in florence to go to the information to office and ask and im sure they will know at least what holiday would be at what time, what hour, what street. in florence, they dont really celebrate the mardi grass as much as venice, maybe youll see a little party here, a little event over there, but theres no big celebration.

the place i DO recommend you to go where they DO celebrate the mardi grass as well, is Viareggio. its off west coast a little up north, you can catch a train from florence to Viareggio for a day, itll take no more than an hour to get there and they celebrate the mardi grass there big time. they have all these real cool floats, they have people dressed up (not as extravagant as in venice, they dress more like kiddy-fun-to-celebrate type, but its cool, really cool!

when you go there make sure to bring a good scarf, beenie, mittens and heavy sweater, because it gets coollld there or at least it did wheni was there a couple years ago,

have fun and enjoy the trip!
OMg venice is soo beautiful excpecialy at night!

Need to find out about prices of everyday items and other events that happend in 1966?

need to find out about prices of everyday items. and events that happend in 1966

Need to find out about prices of everyday items and other events that happend in 1966?listen to opera

Gas was only 32 cents per gallon!

Everything you need to know at the links below.

Where can I find a calendar of upcoming U.S. & World events?

I'm developing an editorial calendar for a general website that has an international audience, though the primary audience is in the U.S. Are there sites / resources (or other publications like the New York Times, etc.) that list upcoming national / world events that may be covered in the news? I'm interested in a wide range of categories (e.g. politics, entertainment, sports, life, business, travel, music, technology, etc.) and am not sure how to get started building such a calendar that is comprehensive.

Where can I find a calendar of upcoming U.S. %26amp; World events?city opera

Wikipedia definitely,just write the year and it will tell you everything

Where can I find a list of National and International Charity Events?

I've been doing yahoo and google searches and haven't been able to find a comprehensive listing of charity events (runs, fundraisers, balls, dinners, auctions, etc) either nationally or internationally. Does anyone know of anything like that?

A searchable database or one broken down by calendar or by country?

Thanks!

Adi

Where can I find a list of National and International Charity Events?passions soap opera

Go to Google site and ask them