[jyl]

I'm wanting a way to video other persons doing sports, in particular skiing, that is easy to carry, easy to use, reasonably durable, allows slow-mo, long zoom lens, adjustable exposure and white balance, makes it easy to share the video, and hopefully pretty inexpensive.

Explainer: I want to pair up with someone and videotape each other skiing, for an hour or so every couple of weeks, so we can both review video of our form.

The choices seem to be a DSLR or a camcorder.

DSLR would give me, well, a digital camera too: two birds one stone. But I'm not particularly wanting a DSLR right now. The length of lens required to get close up footage of a skiier over say a 200 meter run seems like it will be expensive and bulky. Better image quality, I'd guess. Not sure about slow-mo (120 fps).

Camcorder would be less expensive, a one-trick pony. Some have 20X zooms. Smaller ones are easy to carry, but they do get bulky as you add features. Not sure how weatherproof they are, but would probably do video'ing on bluebird days.

Thoughts? Recommendations?