Cameras Nowadays

Photography used to be simple.  Well, sort of.

There were a lot of things to learn like film speed, lighting, apperature, etc. 
And It was fun printing your own black and white photos.

But today???  Sheesh.  My 15-year old son thinks black and white is SO BORING.  *rolling my eyes*  Even Ansel Adams photos he says are boring.

Okay, but here's the quandry I'm in.  I would like to take photos of my son on the ice (he plays hockey).  It used to be that you just set the settings to capture the movement either as a sharp image or as a blurred image -- photographer's choice.  Now you have to find a camera (digital, of COURSE) that will even snap the image WHEN you want the image.

In other words, today, you have to snap the camera BEFORE you want the image.  Like if I want to take a photo of my son making his goal, and NOT a photo of him skating away after the goal has already been made.  *grrrr*

So I found out that you have to buy a digital camera that can actually record a photo at the moment you press the button.

And they're super pricey, like they're for professional photographers or something.  That kind of pricey.  So I've been shopping around for a place to get a digital camera that does everything that my film 35mm does.  I've found a place with Canon cameras that seems to have a pretty good variety of digital cameras so I can comparison shop.  It looks like a good place to start my research/search for a "regular" camera that does what I need it to.  I'll let you know what decision I make.