What is the best digital camera for wildlife photography?
Camera for wildlife photography must have:
- Short start-up time (so that wildlife will not have time to run away from you)
- Short Shutter lags (the same reason as from the time of start-up)
- Quick Focus
- Tele focal length range (greater than 400 mm)
- Must provide 3 or more frames per second in continuous shooting (press and keep pressed the button).
- Must have a buffer memory to provide continuous shooting
- Must provide good quality images with high ISO (light conditions is not always perfect with wildlife)
- Must be durable
What are SLR make a difference in this case?
- SLR does make a huge difference.
- SLR has (many) more short start-up time and shutter lag of almost any point-and-shot (including "SLR-like").
- With an SLR you can use different lenses, including wide-angle, telephoto, stable Image.
- SLR usually has larger sensors, which means better details and less noise (especially with higher ISO).
Budget<$900
This is a problem. You can get a pretty good SLR with lens: Canon Rebel XTi with 18-55 mm lens (28-85 mm in 35 mm equivalent) cost about $ 750. But a simple telephoto lens, such as the Canon 70-300 IS (110-480mm in 35 mm equivalent) will cost 500-600 dollars more. As an alternative to both point-and-shoot by telephoto lens image is stable.
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- Both have a tele Image Stabilized Lens (zoom 12 x 15 x zoom Canon and Sony).
- Both cost less than $ 500.
- There is a Telephoto Converter is available for either camera, so you can increase the maximum focus.
- But you cannot expect the same quick reactions with SLR and the image quality is the same as the SLR.
