Whats a good camera for shooting indoor sports?

No good news in this answer. For this budget, there really are no cameras that are good for indoor sports. Here's why. It's the image sensor. For so many years, camera makers have been pushing megapixels and bigger 'zoom' numbers to sell cameras. To get those large zoom numbers, the smallest image sensor needs to be used. To make matters worse, camera makers are cramming in more and more pixels. In the end, these pixels are very, very tiny. Small pixels gather less light, and noise is the most obvious result. Contrast, color accuracy and dynamic range are compromised as well. It's kind of sad really because it compact camera makers had stopped at between 5-7 megapixels, this answer might be different. So for 200 bucks, any digital camera you buy even if it has the lens to reach the action is going to deliver very grainy, noisy images. in low light, all digital cameras must increase the "ISO" to keep shutter speeds high enough to freeze the action. Image quality will be terrible. If you drop the "ISO" setting, image quality will be pretty good, but virtually all images will be blurry because of low shutter speeds. You'll need to move up to a large image sensor camera whether it be a compact or dSLR, and you'll need a lens with a large aperture for low light work. I have this gear, and I have photographed sports inside a HS gym, and football games at night too and I still struggle at times. Even though it's way out of your budget, here's a link to what would be a good dSLR for indoor sports, not just for photographs, but for video. It's the only dSLR type camera well under 1,000 US dollars that can has a good image sensor for low light shoot at a high fps for still photos, but that also has fast auto focus when shooting video. If capturing this is important to you, start saving up for the proper gear. good luck. http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/sony-a57/sony-a57A.HTM http://youtu.be/vC5rKPlgXSU

Indoor sports photography is sort of a worst-case scenario. I'd try renting any modern body (20D 30D 40D ) with a 50mm f/1.8; if the shutter speeds are still too slow you're kind of hosed as you'd need to step up to something like a 5D just so you could crank the ISO and still get acceptable image quality. If 50mm is too wide the 85mm f/1.8 is only ~$250 and is probably long enough on a crop body; if it isn't, you're going to have to go way above your current budget.

Well with a budget that small you're not going to get much that's good in low light. You should probably be thinking about a dslr with a 50mm f/1.8 lens - total investment = $600 or so... that's for shooting low light.

Indoor sports photography is sort of a worst-case scenario. I'd try renting any modern body (20D 30D 40D ) with a 50mm f/1.8; if the shutter speeds are still too slow you're kind of hosed as you'd need to step up to something like a 5D just so you could crank the ISO and still get acceptable image quality. If 50mm is too wide the 85mm f/1.8 is only ~$250 and is probably long enough on a crop body; if it isn't, you're going to have to go way above your current budget.

Well with a budget that small you're not going to get much that's good in low light. You should probably be thinking about a dslr with a 50mm f/1.8 lens - total investment = $600 or so... that's for shooting low light.