whats the best type of camera for nature photogrqphy?

Answer 1

Nature photography is a relatively large speciality. The "best" tool for the job often depends on the job you want to do.

For landscapes where capturing detail is important, but speed is not, most serious pros use large format or medium format cameras with film or digital backs.

Animal photography often requires long telephoto lenses with fast autofocus and these quite often have IS/VR (image stabilization/vibration reduction) with most photographers using high-end "35mm" DSLR from Canon or Nikon. Bird photographer is a subspecialty where long and fast is even more important.

Close up or macro photography photographers again normally use 35mm SLRs (film or digital) because of the availability of macro accessories for those systems: macro lens, extension rings, reversing rings, etc. Nikon and Olympus have had very complete macro systems.

This is of course for serious professionals who don't get paid if they don't get the shot. For everyone else, the best type of camera is any one that you'll actually feel comfortable taking into the field (not too heavy, reasonably rugged, maybe weatherproof). Remember that in nature photography the best camera in the world is no use if it stays at home in your closet!

I've seen lots of great nature photos taken by amateurs who clearly love nature but hardly use what gear geeks would consider the "best" equipment. A love of nature and willingness to practice and take lots of photos is probably a lot more important than the choice of camera.

Answer 2

Nature photography is also a vast subject. It can be divided into landscape and wildlife photograhy. In wildlife also there is further specialisations of photographers who shoot birds, big mammals, macro photography etc.

For landscape photography, people were traditionally using large format cameras or medium format cameras. Very bulky equipment. Difficult to carry to the field. You have to have a pony loaded with your equipment when you go for trekking with these equipment. But people still use medium format cameras but mostly with digital backs these days. Most of the landscape photographers are now slowly shifting to Canon's 35 mm full frame 16.67 mega pixel digital SLR which is easy to carry and gives comparable results - you can create big posters out of the pictures from this camera.

Wildlife: The best is the 35 mm cameras. Can be easily carried to the field. Long telephoto lenses are mostly required for wildlife photography. Canon is the leading manufacturer followed by Nikon. The top of the line models are Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II and Canon EOS 1D Mark II. However, if budget is a problem, then you can choose the semi-professional Canon EOS 30D camera or the entry level Canon EOS 400D.

You can pick and choose the lenses for the type of photography you want to do. For eg. if you want to do Macro photograhpy, then you can buy the Canon EF 100 mm or EF 180mm macro lens.

For wildlife, you have more than 50 top lenses to choose from. Some of the most used ones are the 70-200 f2.8 L IS USM, 300mm F4L IS USM, 300 f2.8 L IS USM, 400 mm f2.8 L IS USM, 500 mm F4 L IS USM, 600 mm F4 L IS USM etc.

Answer 3

You will need a SLR: The very small shutter lag (only around 50-80 ms) will be helpful. Also there is a much greater choice of lenses for wildlife (digicams only go up to around 450mm equivalent whereas SLR lenses can go to 1200mm). The image quality is much higher, meaning that you can crop tighter. High ISO noise is also much lower, allowing for reduced camera shake (higher shutter speeds) with long lenses and for freezing motion.

Canon have a very good range, although Nikon is just as good. It is also a good idea to make sure that the camera has a large buffer and a reasonably high frame rate (3fps +).

Some good choices would be: Canon 30D + 100-400L IS
Canon 1Ds Mark II + 500f/4L IS
Nikon D2Xs or D200 + 200-400 VR

Olympus digital SLRs could be quite good as they have a 2X crop factor, allowing for a 180-500 f/2.8!!! and a 600 f/2.8 equivalent.

Answer 4

The "best type" would be a high quality DSLR with a long VR (or IS) lens, assuming you are asking about a digital camera in the consumer electronics section in the 21st century.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The best option is to go for a DSLR, a digital SLR, they start at around £350 upwards. You can then as required/when money permits buy better lenses, you will need telephoto lenses for zooming in.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

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Answer 10

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