Don of WDO Photography explains why he won't compare cameras like the Nikon D850 without hands-on testing. Instead, he argues patience is the real tool: find where animals gather, understand what attracts them, and stay still long enough for them to relax around you.
A few months ago, I posted a video about the Nikon D850, which is my go-to wildlife photography camera, and I've gotten a lot of requests for reviews of other cameras or comparisons between this camera and the other, like, best wildlife photography cameras that are out there. But here's the thing, this is my camera. This is the camera that I use all the time, um, and as a result of that, I don't have a lot of experience with these other top-rated wildlife photography cameras, so I don't really want to do a comparison because I haven't had the time to use those cameras and get to know them and put them through the kind of stuff that I've put this camera through. Instead, I want to say that you can get amazing wildlife photos regardless of the equipment that you have. If you use the most powerful tool that we have in our arsenal as wildlife photographers, and that is patience. Finding the place where you can see wildlife, where that wildlife will hopefully not come visit you the way that this Eastern Phoebe is, but will be close enough that you can get close enough to it that even if you have, say, a 200mm lens or 300mm kit lens on a, on a fairly inexpensive camera that you can get great photos just by sitting still long enough to let the animals relax around you and get close to where you are. Obviously, you need to know, number one, where those animals are. 2, you need to know Specifically within the area where you're looking for them, what are they attracted to? Water, food sources. So when it comes to things like birds, like this guy who's sitting on my phone right now, when it comes to things like birds, berries, insects, things of that nature that they like to— That they like to eat, um, are a good source and a good starting place for where to go and how to get great wildlife photos regardless of what type of equipment you have. So thank you so much for watching. This has been Don from WDO Photography. Please, uh, like and follow or subscribe, and I will see you next time. Thank you so much. Bye-bye.
