Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Comparing cameras for wildlife photography, what is in the market.


The first video, from Tony & Chelsea, is a 2 years old video comparing the Canon R5, Sony A1 and the Nikon Z9. Since then the 3 companies have released new version of these cameras or new cameras like the Canon R3, Canon R5 Mark II, R6 , Canon R6 Mark II, R8 and R7. Still a good video to have an idea of what are you looking for if you are in the market for a camera for wildlife photography. 
 

The second video from Duade Paton is around 7 months old and compare a large variety of cameras and lenses from the same perspective of Wildlife photography.

Duade was impressed by Nikon Z9 with a price tag of around $5500  but many other reviewers have expressed that Nikon cameras tend to "hunt" a lot when trying to capture birds in flight including Chelsea in her video mentioned here. 

Chelsea in her end voted for the Sony A1. And no doubt about it, the A1 is a super camera with a price tag of $6500. The Sony A1 is the flagship from Sony and two years ago when I decided to switch from Sony to Canon it was the only camera from Sony offering bird eye auto focus. A feature that Canon was including in the Canon R7 which was selling for around $1500. 

Conclusion: In my opinion, currently if you are looking to start shooting wildlife or bird photography, Canon ecosystem is the one that offers  better prices with more features dedicated to this genre. But to keep the cost low you may need to use the old EF lenses adapted to the new RF mount. Canon RF lenses are overpriced. No question about it. As you can see from these two videos, the market is full of options so go and get your camera which ever brand you pick and start shooting wildlife.


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