I used to think that a camera was a camera and that it was a waste of money to spend several hundred dollars or more on a camera. My wife and I received our first digital camera about a decade ago as a wedding gift. It was a great camera for its time, but still very basic in its functions. It had a "sports" option to take action shots, but it never did a very good job. It was also horrible in poor lighting. We've been in the market for a new camera, but I was dead against spending a lot of money on one. It didn't seem worthwhile to me. Then I went camera shopping and that all changed.
Actually, I didn't go camera shopping. My in-laws were visiting and they went camera shopping. We went too. My two year old fell asleep so I was just sitting in a chair holding her. My wife was checking out the high end cameras with her parents and came over to tell me I should look at them. Fine, I thought, but there's no way we're buying one.
When my two year old woke up I went to check out the camera and was simply amazed at what it could do. I'm stingy with money, but I forked over the money to buy this camera and I have no regrets. After using it for 2+ months now I'm so glad that we invested in it. It does a fantastic job with action shots and does great with low level lighting.
I don't have it in front of me right now, but it's a Canon and although it's not a top of the line Canon, it's an expensive Canon, at least for me. Despite the high cost, I highly recommend any parent out there to save up and buy a good camera. My 6 year old plays soccer and we've gotten several amazing action shots that we never would have gotten with our old camera. Plus we have the lenses to do a deep zoom which we couldn't do with our old camera.
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