Looking to buy a Nikon D5300...baseball action pic

Nice...would you recommend the Nikor 55-200mm for action photos or to save up and buy the lens you used above..

I think the Nikor works great...the Sigma has more reach and also has a macro setting on the lens...so I would save up, but the Nikor does very well too.

I am new to the photography world and I just bought the Nikon D3300 with the Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm lens. I have been happy with it so far, but I am an beginner to all of this. I also bought a cheap High-Power 500mm/1000mm f/8 Manual Telephoto Lens on Amazon and for a newbie working a manual lens it's surprisingly not bad.

The f8 on your 500/1000 is really going to limit you bright days with lots of light. Highly recommend a tripod as well.

I am not up on the Nikon gear so not much help. Canon on the other hand.....

Yeah I knew that when I got it, but it was only $130.00 or so. I do use a tripod and remote otherwise I think it would be a blur with me behind the camera

Cool. Other thing, especially out in Ystone, is the heat waves causing blur. No solution for that.

The memory card can really slow any action shots? I bought a used camera and it took slow pictures and I was worried and the guy was like it just needs reset and cleared to factory. I tried some old cards slow and did some research as the cards are way to old and slow for the camera....what do you suggest for the Nikon D5300...Got camera and 2 lenses for $550
Nikon 55-200mm vr
nikon 18-55mm dx vr
charger +2 batteries and 2 older memory cards
case nikon
cleaner kit...

The memory card does not impact the photo but does impact how fast consecutive photos can be written to the card. Say my camera shoots 10 frames per second, if the memory card is slow the camera may not be able to write to the memory card fast enough to keep up. I think the last card I got was 600x speed. I'm sure there is faster out there not. It all comes at a price.

Any of the SanDisk Extreme Class 10 cards will be fine for your camera and won't slow you down. Your camera shoots at five frames per second, you don't need the absolute fastest cards out there.