Im going on Holiday on the 10th July and on Saturday me and Dad are going to be decideing what camara I’m gong to get on Amazon to get it delivered in time for the holiday
I still havnt decided on a model cause there’s so many and one model seems to have different say bursts per second, iso levels etc to another.
Iv used camaras since I was 12 so have lots of experience in photography but have never used DSLRs or Mirrorless camaras before so don’t know what there like in Wildlife Photography so I thought I’d ask what peoples experiences are in Wildlife Photography in DSLR and Mirrorless in both full frame and crop factor Nikon and Canon camaras
What are anyones exspeariances with certain Canon and Nikon camaras in Wildlife Photography like speed, burst rate, battery life and other important factors?
PimperneBloke said:As an aside, I've just skimmed through your Getting Off Auto's again.... any chance you're going to do a post processing update? Pleeeeeeeeeze I've decided I ought to shoot RAW rather than JPEG, and do some fiddling!! lol
Remembered I didn't reply to this...
What sort of thing are you after? I did a thread on basic post production, but it sounds like you're after more detail. There was also one on merging images and Paul did one on photo editing.
Let me know what you're after & I'll see what I can do
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Unknown said:simpler to just choose the one that is easiest to use
And that is...... ? lol
PimperneBloke said:And that is...... ? lol
Oh - download them all and try in demo mode
Topaz scans the image and decides what it needs - you can overrule it easily enough by flicking an on-screen switch and it updates the display to show you the effect. Can't get much easier than that
Fab, thanks
Unknown said:Well, these two come in at £305 - www.wexphotovideo.com/.../ www.wexphotovideo.com/.../ (other choices doubtless there but I haven't searched diligently - and remember you'll need an SD card too).What are you aiming to be taking pictures of?
That will help you decide if this is anywhere near suitable for your needs. It's not Amazon - you won't get stuff from Amazon 2nd hand I doubt - but WEX are reputable and you'll get a warranty on the kit. It's difficult if you're not in control of your own destiny (so to speak) so you have my sympathy!
I mainly take photos of Wildlife im good at action shots and takeing photos of things that go really fast like a bird suddenly zooming past so fast it could be gone before you can say bird or whatever else the subject is for example. If your in the passenger seat of a car being driven to a nature reserve or wherever a bird in the window can pass very quickly cause the car is moving and Exspeacially when the bird itself is going fast so you need to be ready to take a photo the moment the opportunity and there Usually quiet clear considering the car is moving
like this one for example this was taken in the car while it was moveing
for walking sometimes I take photos of birds in flight then aswell which is helpful for when I can’t stop and good at catching them in action without much blur
So I’m looking for one that is fast and good at moving objects
I do also stay in one place sometimes as well and take photos I take photos of all sorts of Wildlife sone that move alot including things like beetles, grasshoppers and crickets bees wasps and flys and other wildlife that can be quiet fast and when I see wildlife that are far away I need to be able to get close to the animal without going up to it cause it’s not allways possible. I know one reserve that you can’t go up to the animals cause there usually in the lake and maybe a buzzard might perch in a tree over the water in which case I would need to be able get a close shot without approaching
So that is another thing im looking for.
I also need long battery life cause battery is one thing that can be frustrating cause I take lots of photos and films which uses lots of battery and sometimes I go on day trips and things that require long battery life so that is another thing im looking for
Ok, so do you know what the focal length of the camera you used is? That will guide you in choosing a lens for a DSLR. My guess is that you probably will need something like 600mm to get shots at a distance, though a shorter lens with close focussing capabilities would be a good choice for bugs etc. I'm not sure your budget will be sufficient for your aspirations....
ETA oh, and extra batteries take care of all day trips, though you will have to factor that in to your budget potentially
Unknown said:
the quality of the images on my past camaras are bad quality the pictures on it arnt very good when you take them. I can’t zoom in close enough and the battery bar is very short. my smartphone is ok sometimes but runs out often even when I charge it to 100 percent cause I use it so often and it just doesn’t zoom in enough sometimes. Il find out the focal length on my past camaras
a crop factor camara one might be good for me one of my dilemmas is I don’t know if getting a full frame camara and a long range lens would be good or weather I should get a crop sensor and get a close lens or long range on that instead
Since the crop sensor is already cropped I don’t know if it will be going overboard when choosing a lens
So I think I need to figure out which is best I only got enough for most DSLRs rather than mirorless camaras so just need to figure out which would be best
if useing something that brings you closer to a subject with a camara that is already cropped since it has a cropped sensor isn’t going overboard I might get those otherwise if not a full frame. cause there not cropped and of course you can use lenses to bring you closer like the cropped sensor camaras
some models are cropped sensors some arnt
witj the insects I suppose I could get lense for Christmas for that or something maybe. So get A long focal length if possible then get lens for the insects another time
Il go through a few of the camaras iv found these 3 are compact one Olympus the 2nd Kodak and 3rd aberg best and a camcorder. I can’t find the other camaras I also used so could of gone thrown away and replaced with these ones cause I had a few other ones aswell. On Aberg best which is one of the ones I used a lot was 21 megapixels 8x zoom and f 7 45 mm it also says f3.0 The Olympus is AF Zoom 5 x optical zoom 6.3-31 mm 1:3.5 - 5.6 Kodak is AF 3x optical zoom Aspheric lens 36 mm- 108 although none of these 2 camaras say f on them