I want to take pictures of fast moving objects without any blur, what kind of camera should I get?

Question by usesmx06: I want to take pictures of fast moving objects without any blur, what kind of camera should I get?
I want to take pics of my children playing sports, running around and just plain and simple being kids. I get a lot of blur with a basic point and shoot camera when theyre in movement. I want to capture them as frozen stills when they're about to catch that baseball or when they are in the air about to land in the pool.. What to do I need to look for in a camera to capture this?


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Answer by Sound Labs
Freezing fast moving action is a camera setting thing, not a camera thing.

A better camera will have a higher percentage of accurate auto focus, but any camera can freeze the action. It's a matter of you taking control of the camera and getting out of auto mode.

some cameras have an 'action' setting, usually a little icon of a running person, some do not. Either way you need to increase your shutter speed. So the most simple way of getting a faster shutter speed, in day light with a common point and shoot digital camera is to get out of auto mode, and increase the ISO from the base (usually ISO 100) to 200 maybe 400.

From there, you camera will choose the proper exposure time which will now be higher. For point and shoot cameras, I would not recommend going beyond ISO 400 as noise will become very visible, and the camera will try to remove the noise with aggressive noise reduction and it will smear all detail.

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Whats a good point and shoot digi camera with fast shutter?

Question by MiMi ♥: Whats a good point and shoot digi camera with fast shutter?
I need to buy a new point and shoot digitial camera. My sony cybershot from years ago is having issues but lasted awhile at that. I would like something with a fast shutter speed so I don't have to wait for it to auto focus and get the photo minutes later. Any suggestions? I would also like a camera that adjusts to the lighting and takes clear bright photos. Thanks


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Answer by Jim A
There are some things in your questions that tell me you don't understand.

The speed of the shutter has nothing to do with how long it takes for the camera to focus and expose. That is called lag time. All automatic cameras have it. Some say they're faster but the difference can be measured in mili-seconds - that's not very much.

Get used to it, lag time is here to stay as long as you use an automatic camera.

Shutter speed on the other hand is the time it takes to properly expose your photo. If you set the
shutter speed, on an SLR lets say, at 1/500, that shutter will be open 1/500th of a second.
However the lag time to focus and expose may be 2-3 seconds.

There is no getting around lag time. The alternative is manual control with an SLR and that can take many times longer.

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What kind of point and shoot camera has a fast shutter response?

Question by Rayne Wolf: What kind of point and shoot camera has a fast shutter response?
Just what the question says. I'm a person that loves to take pictures, but I don't do it because I can't find a camera that has a fast shutter response. Just to be clear, I'm talking about the time between pressing the button to take the picture and when the picture actually takes. I see the perfect opportunity for photos all the time, but then by the time the picture is actually taken, whatever I'm taking a photo of has moved.

I don't want an SLR because I'm not a photographer and it'd really be just a waist of money. I'm looking for digital point and shoot cameras. I'd also like to have the possibility of HD video recording on the camera but my heart isn't set on it.


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Answer by Vinegar Taster
You're out of luck. No point & shoot is going to give you a fast shutter response. All of them will lag to some degree or another. Even your lower end D-SLR's will lag.
Fujifilm makes some nice Finepix bridge cameras. I like the Nikon P510 myself.

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