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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pastynator" data-source="post: 1562180" data-attributes="member: 32006">I'm afraid i disagree with most of your "How Technology is changing Bird Photography" entry manelson."Shooting bird photographs from a 500mm prime lens sitting on a tripod will get you the highest quality photographs that technology will allow you today. But how many will you miss? Setup time is long. Can you really carry all this around for a few hours while birding? Of course not!! You will shorten your walks with the equipment and miss many birding photographic opportunities."This may apply to some people but not anyone i know. As soon as i got my 500 F4 it actually spurred me on to walk further and longer with my gear. I only find setup time to be a few seconds longer than walking around with a zoom.I often spend whole days walking around with my gear and i'm fine physically with that.I may miss a few shots occasionally while hunting for a small bird in the view finder, but then i get a lot more worthwhile shots where the bird would be too small in the frame with a smaller lens.As i have the option to use a big prime i don't personally see why you'd sacrifice image quality at all by digiscoping or going with a super-zoom, unless of course you are physically unable to cope with the work required for a big lens.My whole wildlife photography obsession has lead me eventually to use a big prime as that's just simply the best there is for the job.If you don't want the best quality, don't have the strength or stamina or a condition that prohibits the use of a big lens then the other alternatives are a good option though.</blockquote>

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