Pretty much any name brand camera (with the spec's you want) will do for most normal bowling videos.
The main things are FPS and storage capacity and power.
60 FPS produces a decent slo-mo for most uses.
The minimum is 8 GIGs of storage and that's if your conservative in your recording.
For power one that uses off the shelf rechargeable batteries is best. That way you have back ups, plus you can always grab some energizers in a emergency. The one's that use proprietary batteries, the batteries can get expensive and hard to find. If your lucky and a plug is handy you can run off AC.
The higher the FPS the more critical lighting becomes, watch the auto brightness settings. When facing the lanes the brightness of the lanes will fool the auto brightness and the bowler will appear dark & silhouetted.
A optional fill light can come in handy and they have some real nice, small led fill lights for less than $20 now.
For play back make sure your software will display the frame numbers, some of the calculations are based on frame counts.
The camera I use is a Old Kodak Zi8 it will do 720p/60fps.
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