Sports photography - canon rebel vs. nikon d70

I do sports photography the year around. Both indoor and outdoor. And am
comparing a canon rebel vs. a nikon d70 digital camera.

Any experience with either of these? likes or dislikes?

What lense or flash packages do you use? Any good third party suppliers for
equipment?

 

A Canon Rebel is a film camera. A Canon Digital Rebel is a digital camera, so
it would be better to compare to a Nikon D70.

---Bob Gross---

 

I do sports photography the year around. Both indoor and outdoor. And am

It depends more on the lenses that you intend on using. Of the two, the D70
has the edge for sports work as Canon made the AI Servo Focus "automatic."
Unless you go into Sports mode and give up RAW, it's not very predictable
when it'll track the subject or not.

 

Of the two, the D70

I have a DRebel and must agree with Ed. I don't do sports but do like to
capture birds in flight. The DRebel is not the best choice now that the D70
is available. However, I'm not bashing the camera as it works great for
most shots.

 

I do sports photography the year around. Both indoor and outdoor. And am

The D70 can shooting continuously more images in a given amount of time.
That might be useful with sports.

-Michael

 

The D70 could be ok if you don't mind the low MP, the 300D is out for
low MP, a tenny tiny buffer, no usable RAW mode, and impossible AF
system.

 

I own the dRebel, but given the specs of the D70, mainly the bigger, faster
buffer, it would lend itself to action photography better than the dRebel.

In Canon's favor, consider more lenses with USM motors than does Nikon has
SW motors and Canon has the edge in IS lenses. Don't knock IS or Vibration
Reduction technology until you have tried it! Canon will probably have an
answer this year to the D70 which would probably be, unfortunately, lowering
the price of the dRebel.
John