Timeline for What is the best lens for taking photos of birds?
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| Apr 2, 2013 at 23:40 | comment | added | thomasrutter | I'm being picky here, but I don't think this question is a duplicate of that flying bird question, as this one is specifically about non-flying birds and that one is about flying birds. However, the answers will have overlap. | |
| Mar 30, 2013 at 23:30 | comment | added | MikeW | Good Photo SE blog post by jrista covering gear selection and other tips - Birding: Boosting your kit... | |
| Mar 30, 2013 at 18:32 | answer | added | Finpete | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 30, 2013 at 11:58 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 30, 2013 at 11:41 | history | edited | mattdm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
remove answer from question (see discussion on meta); also, this isn't really model-specific so removing that tag
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| Mar 29, 2013 at 16:03 | comment | added | Olin Lathrop | When it comes to birds, too long is never enough. | |
| Mar 29, 2013 at 14:22 | answer | added | рüффп | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 28, 2011 at 15:39 | history | edited | Laura | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited title for proper sentence capitalization and made it into a complete sentence
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| Feb 17, 2011 at 15:42 | history | edited | Nathan Campos | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Feb 2, 2011 at 13:19 | answer | added | Max Sang | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 1, 2011 at 5:43 | comment | added | fahad.hasan | You can also try 70-200mm f/2.8 (non IS) with 2X TC (140-400mm f/5.6). This setup gives you enough sharpness and also you can use the 70-200mm without TC for great portraits =) | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 17:43 | comment | added | Shizam | I'd also advocate renting several lenses from someplace like borrowlenses.com to find out what you like before throwing down $X000 (*note I'm affiliated w/borrowlenses.com :)) | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 15:25 | answer | added | user3605 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 11:14 | vote | accept | Nathan Campos | ||
| Jan 31, 2011 at 8:18 | answer | added | G B | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 5:16 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPhotos/status/31943835642757121 | ||
| Jan 31, 2011 at 4:26 | comment | added | Itai | You may see my recommendation for a duplicate question, it is in the $1200 IIRC: photo.stackexchange.com/questions/4255/… | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 4:25 | comment | added | Itai | possible duplicate of What size lens is recommended for flying bird photography? | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 4:11 | answer | added | user2719 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 4:08 | comment | added | jrista | Just a quick note from my own experience...a basic camo suit...coat, pants, hat...can go a LONG way towards getting you close to your subjects...even birds. Even with a supertelephoto lens of 500mm...for a frame-filling bird shot you still need to get pretty darn close. | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 3:26 | answer | added | Shizam | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 3:08 | answer | added | thomasrutter | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 3:03 | answer | added | PearsonArtPhoto | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 2:59 | answer | added | user2910 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 2:50 | comment | added | Nathan Campos | Money isn't a problem, but for sure $5000 is too much for a hobby investment... | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 2:46 | comment | added | Reid | Hi Nathan, can you give us a sense of what your budget is? We can recommend some lenses at $5,000 and up which are very nice for bird photos, but that's a bit much for most people... | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 2:44 | answer | added | ysap | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 31, 2011 at 2:39 | history | asked | Nathan Campos | CC BY-SA 2.5 |