As the start date of the Olympics gets ever nearer, my thoughts turn to how I’m going to capture the action at the various events I’m going to.  I currently have a Panasonic Lumix TZ3 which I am happy with but its getting a bit long in the tooth now and also suffered an unfortunate accident at the hands of my other half which makes the battery & memory card hard to extract.

I have a Nikon D40x DSLR camera with a telephoto lens which I think would be ideal to capture the sporting action, but I’m worried that it will be bulky to carry around particularly in the crowds, and also that I won’t actually be allowed to take it in (its unclear at the moment what limits there will be on personal camera equipment allowed within the games venues).

Because I’ve liked my TZ3 so much,  the Lumix TZ30 to looks like a good bet to replace it but I’m wondering whether I should go for a Superzoom/bridge camera instead as it will give me a better zoom as there will be times (many I’m sure!) when I’ll be far from the action.  And then of course theres all the choice out there – how on earth am I supposed to choose?!  I want something thats relatively easy to transport, can take good, fast pictures both inside and out with as high a zoom as possible.  If it can record HD video, have a flip out screen for those times when I can’t line up directly and have GPS (some things that my D40x can’t do at all!) then all the better!

Not sure there are any cameras that might that restrictive criteria… 😉