nickon d5000

[lukesdogs]

i am on the verge of buying the nikon d5000 and this will be my 1st digital slr i am looking at buying the twin lense kit and would like to know will this be a good camera for sports photography as i will use it when my son plays footy and hockey and when my daughter plays netball. i had a fujifilm finepix s5700 that took ok pics befor the lense stoped working and i currently have a little point and shoot fujifilm wich cost $100 and dosent take very good pics at all thanks

sorry about spelling mistake in title

[Franglais]

When doing sports photography you need 3 things:

- a telephoto zoom lens. You got this in the kit
- good autofocus which can follow a moving subject. The D5000 has a very good autofocus unit used in professional models (D200). Your kit lens is not as fast to autofocus as a professional lens but it should be adequate
- fast shutter speed to freeze action which means a camera that can go to high ISO without noise. Your D5000 can go all the way to 6400 ISO - more than enough for outdoors and maybe even enough for indoor sports (a pro model would be better)

I think your D5000 kit should be fine. Set it on sports mode to start with - it will do all the complex stuff like choosing continuous focussing and high shutter speed itself

[candy bersh]

* New 2.7-in. 230k-dot Vari-angle monitor swings down approximately 90° and rotates 180°
* Nikon DX-format CMOS image sensor with 12.3 effective megapixels and Integrated Dust Reduction System
* Specially designed EXPEED image processing system
* One-touch access to Live View, which includes face priority AF and subject tracking
* D-SLR movie function: D-Movie, selectable from 320 x 216 pixels, 640 x 424 pixels or 1,280 x 720 pixels in AVI format
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* Incredibly low-noise performance throughout a wide sensitivity range of ISO 200 to 3200; can be set to ISO 100 and ISO 6400 equivalents
* Viewfinder with approx. 95% frame coverage and an easy-to-view 17.9 mm eyepoint (at -1.0 m-1)
* Up to 4 fps continuous shooting
* Built-in pop-up flash with Nikon's original i-TTL flash control
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* Compatible with HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) output
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