Which camera and lens for wildlife photography and everyday photography?

Need a camera for wildlife photography (large mammals, but also birds like eagles and falcons)

I also want to take photos of myself and photos of friends and buildings.

Budget: Approx. €2,000.00

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IXXIac
1 year ago

Hello

“Day camera” > Sony R100III New price from 500€

“Wildlife camera” for eagle and falcon > Nikon P1000 New price from 1000€

Tripod for P1000 zb Berlebach Report 222 with large ball head or J gimball and Manfrotto 293, Negro, Shame or LIM Support plate/support (stand thread of the P1000 can/will be worn out during normal installation) New price from 500€

The P1000 is a good entry-level solution for animal photography, but with falcons it is only possible to take part in a Beizjagd (but then the bullet-out in the flight will be over 99%), some cities have turret wrinkles which then often develop favorite places. The Olympus Stylus 100EE is “elegant” for small money (used from 200€). In Germany, there are estimated 2000 falconries where you can then create with a 400 tele format filling images. Many Falkners regularly work at/before airports. There are also estimated 250 wild bird parks with regular performances on the weekend. I’ve got a dozen castles from here in two hours of car driving time. Many bird parks make photographer courses on analogue film times all “nature photographers” first went to the training courses or to the nature photographers fairs.

  • Analogue film was just so expensive that photo courses immediately reckoned
  • Camera technology was pork and many manufacturers have the same basic values as brochures but in practice you get what you pay. So one went to trade fairs to be able to compare the technology directly in one place and/or there were real specialist sellers who could explain/show in 2 minutes because of the difference between a Tokina ATX 80-400 and a Nikkor AF 80-400 or the “weak” of each optics in the direct comparison

http://www.google.com/search?q=falknereien+Fotokurse

The first time will be “practicing” with the P1000 in Greifvogelwarten, Zoos and Wildparks because most beginners can/do not want to run around for hours and sit for hours to then have created 1-2 good/sellable pictures after 1ner week. The advantage of the P1000 is with the supertele you save yourself many kilometers and sitting hours or you have the chance to see the nest in the mountains through scavenging a rock from obliquely above. Also, the P1000 is also interesting for tree growers, even routined landlords have no problem with a 3kg battery saw to cut free, a 10kg photo equipment and 2kg beverages with bread time to scratch into the treetops. Weight is less the topic rather bulky when first ascents with climbing iron and hemp rope in “unrazed” (unused) tree stock.

Eagles are found in D-A-CH only at the “known” locations which are often under “hobbyornithologic pressure” or there are the spring collectors and the ovaries. To photograph wild eagles/films, you can contact NABU or become a member there.

So “Adler Monitoring” by photographers is sensible/followed because there are some trophies (not the “big-hard” that go over bodies). And occasionally it comes from the young animal in eagle horsts through an accident/shot of the broods by removal/hand-breeding, there are often bird photographers the first to recognize.

The problem is many hobby photographers because buying a camera for wildlife photographers and in the end are also only trophie hunters who walk in nature through bodies of other animal species because it must be fast and comfortable.

To this extent, I advise a P1000 which, in principle, does not “use” a wildlife photographer or will use it for a knisper/farmer of the falcons and eagles, saves the P1000 that the “teaching time”, the frusty sits the hour-long anpirch and sit on, and it spares the birds/nature from beginners’ mistakes or district conflicts.

With the P1000 you can simply go to a bird’s area after the end of the day to find a good parking place, crank down the side window and take a picture of the driver’s seat with running heater and radio music for 2-6 hours until the twilight limit. There are door windows tripod clamps and from the on-board network you can permanently energize the camera. Many birds take advantage of the highway as a hunting area, so there are more frequent battles at the edge of the highway than at the edge of the forest and this is a saleable material. Birds in flight or on a branch no longer buys one has a super high-resolution template where you can count the parasites in the plumage. This is done with a D850 and AFS 200-500 or EOS R5 with RF 100-500L and then has to run for hours/start/fitting

Uneternal
1 year ago
Uneternal
1 year ago
Reply to  Sakul777

That she looks good. At MPB you get used cameras with 1 year warranty and condition is exactly described. I bought it more often.

guru61
1 year ago

Hello In my eyes, the 2 requirements bite: For wildlife photography, I would appeal to a good, high-quality telephony. Together with a tripod. It can also be a high-quality zoom, but these are usually light weakeners, which can mean just in the dusk image or non-image.

For normal photography, a zoom of 35-70 and 70-210 is not wrong.

I need the 35-70 to over 90%.

I assume you don’t want to photograph analogue, but digitally: then the decision would be whether “full format” (24x36mm) or less.

Maybe you should realize it first:

12 sensor sizes in cameras | explanation and comparison (pixolum.com)

However, I know one thing: for full format, the budget will not be enough!

fanclub75
1 year ago

full format DSLR or current mirrorless system camera (profi version) or at least with high closing speed and intelligent autofocus.

teleobjective from 300 mm.

tipp: canon 5D mark 4 used by the dealer (approx. 500 €)
canon EF 100-500 L (approx. 800 €)
canon EF 24-70 L (approx. 300 €)

fanclub75
1 year ago
Reply to  Sakul777

as a beginner, you should look for a much less demanding area than wildlife photography.

simply take the dates mentioned and search with google.