Digital SLRs and high speed lenses

[Sask2005]

Ignoring my similar but different thread about olympus cameras could people please recommend the best dig slr for the following work:

- photographing high speed cars/bikes/ and runners moving past me or towards or away from me
- shooting objects moving around fast at distance - 150ft - using a telephoto
- camera that turns on fast
- can continuous shoot quickly and without delay
- has a good high speed telephoto lens (not a pro lens)
and is the price of non pro dslrs like Olympus e300 range.

Also pls explain what is a high speed lens and how it relates to a camera.

Many thanks
Confused!!
B:clap

[gus]

Read this (http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/glossary/)

Buy this (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Panasonic/panasonic_dmcfz30.asp)

Gus

[Sask2005]

Thanks for the new info too Gus - really want to buy the Olympus cause its within price range and the extra lens for the nikon d70 are way out of it and want to move out into slrs.Thanks again

Read this (http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/glossary/)

Buy this (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Panasonic/panasonic_dmcfz30.asp)

Gus

[marlof]

Sask: a lil piece of advice, since there aren't many Oly E-300 shooters in here. Go to the DPReview Olympus SLR forum (http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1022), and ask for experiences in shooting motorized sports with the E-300 and the kit lenses. It'd be strange if you wouldn't get some hands on report there.

[Sask2005]

Sask: a lil piece of advice, since there aren't many Oly E-300 shooters in here. Go to the DPReview Olympus SLR forum (http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1022), and ask for experiences in shooting motorized sports with the E-300 and the kit lenses. It'd be strange if you wouldn't get some hands on report there.
great suggestion, thanks, will do. B

[gus]

Just remember that with a DSLR comes some real baggage for most of us like tripods..backpacks..better computers & expensive programmes for editing in RAW etc etc...the list is without end.

Waxy said that to me when i was about to take the plung & i thought "..yeah but im different" well he was making an understatement. Ive got expensive gear from here to timbucktoo & the light at the end of the tunnel may just be a freight train.

Gus

[marlof]

Ive got expensive gear from here to timbucktoo & the light at the end of the tunnel may just be a freight train.
Yep, I know that feeling. I just hope the freight train stops by you first...

I thought when I went with the Oly E-1 and the 14-54 and 50-200 I'd be done. Since then I've bought two backpacks (one for hiking, one for city dwelling), one tripod, have ordered a teleconverter, am saving up for a macro lens and extension tube, and am thinking about a Portable Storage Device. There's no end to it all!

[tinbasher]

I thought when I went with the Oly E-1 and the 14-54 and 50-200 I'd be done. Since then I've bought two backpacks (one for hiking, one for city dwelling), one tripod, have ordered a teleconverter, am saving up for a macro lens and extension tube, and am thinking about a Portable Storage Device. There's no end to it all![/QUOTE]

I feel this way...If you enjoy it...DO IT! If you can afford it...DO IT!! If you cant afford it...DO IT!! You only live once!

:)
Cheers,

Tinbasher

[marlof]

I feel this way...If you enjoy it...DO IT! If you can afford it...DO IT!! If you cant afford it...DO IT!! You only live once!
Next time my DW complains, I'll tell her you said I should DO IT! :)