Looking for a good action camera...!

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Hi and welcome

Have you had previous slr experience before? I don’t know what camera I can recommend for you, but I can tell you what to look for. Look for a camera that has some sort of burst mode, so that it can take lots of pictures at one time and make sure it has plenty of frames per second to suit your needs. Also since you’re into rodeos, you sometimes want to be able to select a relatively high iso (depending on your lighting condition) so you can increase your shutter speed to freeze things without having way to much noise in the photograph some cameras have high noise and some have low.

What helped me allot with picking my camera was to research alot, you can find plenty of reviews on cameras here

http://www.photographyreview.com/cat...S_3127crx.aspx

Also a large part in choosing a dslr are there lens compatibility. Because if you already have a large collection of lenses you may want to know if your new camera can use them. If not, its fine cause you can slowly start your collection with your new camera.
The only dslr I can recommend is my very first and only dslr the a700 which I bought rather recently. I think it shoots at 5 frames per second (fps) if your scene is well lit. It has outstanding noise performance, good for action photography. It has 12 megapixels so you can make your prints large and proud. Great color. The best of all, it’s amazingly user friendly. I never had a Digital slr before only a film slr, I got it and you get the hang of it within minutes, it’s that easy. Other than the "getting started manual", I rarely read the lengthy main manual for probably 4 months after I got the camera. Again very user friendly, I may be biased on this though. But in photography you usually get what you pay for, so all the brands, canon, Sony, Nikon, Olympus are great choices, there are other camera brands besides Nikon and Canon.

I actually bought a Sony a700 which I love but it was rather expensive at 1 grand. It’s an all around great performing camera and can do anything other cameras can despite being less popular. But since I spent loads of money on the cameras body, I didn’t have enough cash left over to buy a decent lens. So It forced me to buy a cheap quality lens for $100 which severely reduced the cameras potential. So you might be happy with a good budget body teamed up with a really really good lens since the quality of the photo is only as good as the glass it took it through. But to add something else, the photographers skill's with the camera far outweighs how good or expensive your equipment is. So in other words, having the latest and greatest is nice, but having the right skills to use them to their potential is far nicer. Personally I have a long way I think to becoming a decent photographer.

You can research the eos rebel xsi on that link I showed you, lots of great reviews from good people

But ask lots of questions, there are lots of nice people ready to help you out whenever you may need it. Best of luck!