Bonsaibirder
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Hi,
I am thinking of buying a lens for my wife's digital SLR (*istD Pentax) so that I can use it to take bird photos. From my limited enquiries so far it seems difficult to find a high power telephoto lens for a reasonable price for a Pentax camera. I am looking at Tamron and Sigma - there don't seem to be any other alternatives for this camera. (any thoughts on which company make the better lenses?)
My question is, that since there are some very reasonably priced zoom lenses that go up to 300mm from both of these companies, is 300mm enough for bird photography? Can anyone direct me to some decent bird photos taken with 300mm lenses in the gallery?
I should say that I would be mostly using this lens hand held, while in the field birding and my main purpose would be for record shots of interesting birds and of course for "lucky" instances when birds might perch up for me. If I was to buy a lens longer than 300mm I would probably take along a monopod to steady it.
Any advice would be very much appreciated. I used to photograph bird with a SLR and a 500mm mirror lens (hand held) and I became very dissallusioned - I can count the decent photos I got over ten years on one hand!!
Cheers,
I am thinking of buying a lens for my wife's digital SLR (*istD Pentax) so that I can use it to take bird photos. From my limited enquiries so far it seems difficult to find a high power telephoto lens for a reasonable price for a Pentax camera. I am looking at Tamron and Sigma - there don't seem to be any other alternatives for this camera. (any thoughts on which company make the better lenses?)
My question is, that since there are some very reasonably priced zoom lenses that go up to 300mm from both of these companies, is 300mm enough for bird photography? Can anyone direct me to some decent bird photos taken with 300mm lenses in the gallery?
I should say that I would be mostly using this lens hand held, while in the field birding and my main purpose would be for record shots of interesting birds and of course for "lucky" instances when birds might perch up for me. If I was to buy a lens longer than 300mm I would probably take along a monopod to steady it.
Any advice would be very much appreciated. I used to photograph bird with a SLR and a 500mm mirror lens (hand held) and I became very dissallusioned - I can count the decent photos I got over ten years on one hand!!
Cheers,