answered question

1
Vote

2
Answers

M$1.00

newbey | March 31, 2009 09:11 PM | in Birding

What is the best camera for bird watching?

We have tons of really neat birds right out our back door, but I can't get decent pictures of them with my cheesy little digital camera. What is the best solution photographing them without spending a fortune?

voted interesting: williamwaco

| Report Report

answers (2)

1
Vote

BEST ANSWER chosen by asker | hillo | March 31, 2009 10:11 PM

You can also try this 'bird cam' - the Wingscapes from BirdCam
http://www.wingscapes.com/

Here's a full product review with user tips:
http://blog.douggreensgarden.com/product-review-bird-cam/

These are not easy photos to capture, as you have found. Typically you would want to have a quality telephoto lens, a tripod and lots of patience to get some of the amazing images you'd see in some of the professional magazines. But these 'bird cam' cameras look like they can capture some nice images with some trial and error.

Keep shooting and Happy birding.

Asker's rating:

voted helpful: newbey

Tip hillo for this answer | Permalink | Report

Comment

williamwaco | April 01, 2009 12:19 AM

This is good advice but you might overlook it. All those eye-popping professional photos are carefully selected by the photograoher as the best. S/He may have snapped hundreds of duds to get that one eye-popper.

Amateur photographer for many years. I find that for photos of live animals/people the best you can hope for is one really good one in twenty photos. Maybe one eye-popper in 100 photos. Patience and persistance is the key to getting good shots.

Tip williamwaco for this comment | Report

hillo | April 01, 2009 12:21 PM

1 in 20 - you must be a really talented photographer :) Yep, I agree, for one great shot, no matter what camera, you must shoot hundreds if not more!

Tip hillo for this comment | Report