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I wish I had your gear to choose from, that's for sure, but I tend to favor whatever offers the most light. Shooting in Zoo, esp., that one, is still great to practice and to otherwise refine one's shooting techniques, etc. I would love to get to Singapore inandof itself.
If I'm going to trust anyone for a telephoto lens review it would be a guy who normally does "portrait and model" work but recently did some "bird"-ing 😂
thanks for the info Matt, your channel is legendary <3
Nice trip report – always love going to Singapore! Your comparison is not apples to apples though, you may draw very skewed conclusions …
With every new video, Matt looks more and more like Moby. I mean that in a good way.
Next up. Mastering BIF & Behaviour. 🧐
6:03 the owl was wonderful ! Matt I love the format of this video. You go out for a 2 day trip and report on the gear you had – it's great. If I could afford either of those TC's I'd get one, but I'd need to sell everything else !! LOL I did take the z180-600on safari, and my analysis showed that I'd have (probably) gotten more keepers with the z70-200 as we were in those safari trucks all day, so our guides got us relative;y close. I'm going to a bird park here in the UK in the next few days, and that will be the z70-200. Thank you
if you have one one lens to carry, it will be 400mm f4.5 and a TC 1.4X. that will be all, if there is another one that you want to carry will be either 70-200 or 600mm f6.3 depends on where you go in Singapore.
Shooting wildlife for pleasure indicates aging…. have fun!
Man the 600 1.4x is my dream lens! I normally photograph small birds and use 180-600. Large portion of my time I’m at 600mm. The 800pf would be awesome to have and might be next lens when ever I can afford one
Hey Matt, if I may ask a video, since you travel a lot time with a lot of (and heavy) gears, can you make a video about how you pack your gears for travel and how about cabin luggage weight limitation and also gear safety if you have to put you gears in checked in baggage.
Thank you 😀
for wildlife I sued to have the 200-400 f4, it looked great but 400mm is kind of short. I traded that older lenses for the 180-600mm. The newer AF helps but it didn't look as nice as the rendering of the 200-400 f4. So when i saw a used sigma 120-300 f2.8 I snagged that thing. Still haven't used it. That would be my go to lens. my second lens would be the walkaround 24-200. Something to walkaround with, only put on the big lens at the spot. I a few years I might have to down size to the 80-400. I use topaz lab and lightroom AI to clean the files os no big deal of the smaller aperture noise like a few years before. I run old photos thru topaz lab ai from early days and they all look better.
Thank you for the video Matt, Maybe a 180-400-tc and the 600f4,
You should have 100-300 f2.8 that's probably replaced 2 Lens
Great Video Matt. I enjoyed your explanations about the needs for each lens. Do you have the 180-600? I use it all the time along with my 800PF.
Thanks for your video. I love my small combo for travel: Nikon Z8, Nikon Z50II, 600mm PF, 1.4x TC, 28-400mm and either a 14mm viltrox or a 10mm Laowa. Lightweight versatile , one small bag.
Hi Matt what do you think about the 400mm f4.5 S, I currently own this lens and I find it light and tack sharp and I pair that with my Z6iii. Cheers Mark from Brisbane
Hi!
As an experienced bird photographer you can’t optimize the set up of gear without relate it to what species and in what kind of environment they live in.
Besides there are a lot of other factors influencing the choice of gear. Are you supposed to take photos of nerarly all the birds in the ecosystem you must indeed argue like you do in the video, but I can’t recommend you I’m afraid.
It’s all about how you like to photograph. Do you want to just take documentary pics or do you want to tell something artistically / ethologically / ecologically it may reflect your choice of gear.
In the end it’s all about knowing about the biology of the specific birds BEFORE you even think of bringing the gear out in nature!
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Sigma, 150-600 – the one to do it all, or a waste of space?
I just would take with me my OM System 150-400 M.Suiko PRO 1,25 tc lens.
for something less luxurious, I prefer a combo of the 100-400 and the 600 f/6.3. To be honest, I'm perfectly fine shooting with a 500 PF (on adapter) and that's good for 90% of bird shots at my national park where birds tend to be in the canopies or semi-far in the marsh, but for a big long trip where you might encounter close and far wildlife of all type, I think the 100-400 and 600PF is a pretty good compromise of performance, cost and (most importantly for me) weight. I have seen people with the 400 and 600 TCs but always on a monopod, and most of the time the birds don't hang around in one spot long enough to even set up a monopod so the ability to handhold and walk around for hours without fatigue is pretty important to me.
16:15 full agreement. Love the stats, but I had thought you were really going to make a two lens trip (like most of us mortals do) and show us the results.
Thank Matt for this INTERESTING video. Luckily for me, right now, I don't have any lens with focal length longer than 200mm. Therefore, I don't have a hard time choosing which lens to bring on my photo trip!
Don't overlook the 180-600…. not the fastest lens but incredibly versatile with great handling and ergonomics with the short throw internal zoom. I feel like I get keepers with that lens I wouldn't get with primes.
Great photos, sounds like a fun trip!
No way I’d ever be able to afford either of those two TC models tho. For a trip like that, definitely the 180-600, also the Tamron 70-180 that I just picked up, both on the z8. Maybe add the 24-200 on the z7ii just for wide shots and walking around, that combo seems like it’s always in the bag, and the 1.4x extender because, as stated, I don’t have 20k for a tc lens, tho f9 can be a challenge …
So far the 100-400 has been mostly for trips where I can’t pack the longer lens.
A ton of great wildlife and gear talk 👍 little to no talk about the actual video title 😴
600 F4.. yea for sure. Cost aside.. but that lens is just so big long and heavy.. even thinking of bringing it out and using it… dont make me excited. Lens department need a big breakthrough to make that lens small, lighter.