Casio introduced a 60fps, 6Mpix camera for $999.99.
It's our job to promote running, and that's a bang-up breakthough camera for a good price that will do the trick.
At the next race, meet you go to, post the pictures on your website, email pictures to your local newspaper.
are you actually trying to pitch a thousand dollar camera to a message board full of young broke runners? what are you smoking buddy? its gotta be some good stuff...
i always had the impression that letsrun was full of spoiled rich Chicken Hawks, Jesus Freaks, and Mormons.
is the camera really that good? why? i didnt see any photographic evidence- just alot of geek squad talk.
It's not going to be available until March, so I don't think anybody has had the opportunity to test one yet. If you want my opinion though, the really fast shooting is cool but in terms of all around performance (mostly image quality) it won't even be in the same league as a similarly priced low end dSLR like the Nikon D80.
Sounds cool, but 60fps is unnecessarily high for practical purposes of simple running photography... if you take one second's worth of photos, you now have 60 photos of nearly the same thing - so storage becomes an issue.
Here is what I took at 5fps with a dSLR, many of them with a shutterspeed set high:
http://www.winningcoach.com/Photos/
Now I think Canon has a nice dSLR that does 10fps, and that would be really nice.
Good ideas though to encourage people posting photos and getting them to the media!
I agree.
In a "slow" sport like athletics, how could 60fps (FOR one second !) possibly have any advantage over 6fps with a similarly priced dSLR ? It's a gimmick
You many not need 60 for distances, but 15 would be nice for to get runners over the barrier. 60fps would be great for going over the bar, or throwing the hammer/discus/shot.
Also cropping your pics would take out the foreground and background and make your pics not look like amateur vacation snapshots. If you kneel down it will give a better prespective. Also a zoom lens would help.
The great thing about this camera, its that more track, field, running fans will take more pictures and promote our sport. The cost is high but not like the pro bodies which sell for $5000 without a lens or a storage chip. You can get pro results for $1000 now since it comes with a lens. There's no excuse anymore for volunteers with good incomes to not to shoot and post pictures of meets. Prior to this camers, you had to be a wealthy internet entrepreneur or work for A.P. to be able to get pro pictures. Now you can do it for far less money.
Keep snapping, Keep posting.
wow, track & field is so exciting. this is why i dont go to track meets and im the best runner on this board.