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This also makes you think with great care about spending all that money. This Hornbill I shot a few days ago at Marwell Zoo with my little Sony RX10 1/320 sec f3.5 200mm eq lens setting at 200ISO. Very little noise and well able to blow up to a pin sharp A3+ print!!!
But in fairness, Graham, you know that you are never going to need extreme tele lenses when shooting captive creatures. As soon as you put WILD in front of LIFE it puts zeros on the price of the equipment and/or a huge commitment to field craft and local intelligence to achieve the same standard of images.
I remember many years ago wanting to film spotted woodpeckers especially at their tree 'nest'. After lots of attempts, which I have to say produced a lot of good cut away footage, I heard of someone who lived in a wood and who had woodpeckers in the tree 10foot outside their bedroom window!
The shots I got were superb with short range teles...and it was a very comfortable hide. Lol
WILD woodpecker ....sat on my patio... 200mm lens.....
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