This is especially useful for wildlife photographers taking an interest in small animals like mice or insects. With a weight of just 16 ounces, the lens offers great features but still provides comfort. This lens is termed APO because of its apochromatic optical elements.
Their advantage over regular achromatic elements is color correction in different lighting. You can zoom into the distance to capture a glorious wildlife shot, as well as zoom up close to an insect. Moreover, the Sigma mm lens has a 9-blade diaphragm — the part that controls aperture — that gives you control over depth of field. This is especially useful for wildlife photography, so you can vary the depth of the landscape surrounding your subject.
Plus, the lens has multiple layers of coating that protect your images from flare and chromatic distortions, as well as improve tonal contrast. Finally, it has a built-in autofocus motor, making it compatible with any camera. This lets you capture moving subjects in great detail — a must for wildlife photography.
This aperture range is also helpful in poorly-lit scenes and hand-held shots. As such, you have more versatility in when, where, and how you shoot. Harboring an blade diaphragm, it gives you the ability to try your hand at different blurring effects, including bokeh, to enrich your wildlife shots. Be that a dynamic photo in motion, or a still animal portrait, this lens will have lots to offer. However, be warned that compared to another Sony GM, this one has a smaller zoom range, so if you need telephoto, keep on reading!
The Nikon mm VR lens has the largest zoom range, covering everything from wide-angle to telephoto and macro shots. Naturally, this allows you to experiment with your style, so you can get as close as 5. You can use it with or without a tripod — whatever you are more comfortable with. This Nikon lens further has vibration reduction VR up to 4 shutter speed stops, so your images look sharper.
This is an asset especially for telephoto shooting, as any small movement will result in annoying blur.
Besides this, the VR corrects lighting in low-light conditions. Plus, dispersion elements correct color distortions, and a Nano Crystal coating enhances colors in overexposed and backlit shots.
Finally, a Silent Wave motor improves autofocus performance, without making focusing sounds. With its optical design, the Canon mm IS II lens minimizes color distortions that always find a way into any photography. Especially, it gets rid of magenta and cyan aberrations at contrast points of zoomed-in images. What this means is that it reduces camera shake to make it appear as if the shutter speed is higher. Wildlife photographers need this, especially for telephoto shots.
And yet, for times when you do want a blurred background, Canon mm has a 9-blade diaphragm that provides control over the depth of field and its qualities. With it, your subject will stand out more. To prevent unnecessary lens flare and motion blur, there is an Air Sphere coating.
Plus, this lens is weather-sealed and protected against fingerprint smudges, making it perfect for shooting outdoors in any weather. And for wildlife photography, the lens has to track moving subjects exceptionally well. Sony F4. Mainly, it has a focus range limiter and various focus hold controls that provide you with more autofocus settings.
You can also adjust the stiffness of the zoom ring basically, how much force you need to apply to zoom in. This is helpful if you often find yourself switching between different zoom settings, or if you are on the go and need your zoom setting to stay as it is.
The lens is weather-sealed and compact, weighing just over 49 ounces. Its a great lens for birds and wildlife, really gets you in there, and with a pro version APC sensor you have mm reach. I do recommend a monopod, as these lenses get heavy after shooting a while. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
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Search for:. Connect With Us Pinterest. Pin It on Pinterest. Landscape Lightroom Presets. Learn More. I started my photographic life using small Olympus cameras, graduating to Canon as my professional repertoire broadened 15 years ago. We have choices now which a few short years ago we could only dream of! What do I look for in a good quality wildlife lens? Focal length is of course important as is sharpness, contrast, focus speed and accuracy. In general a lens becomes useful for nature and wildlife if it can achieve at least mm of reach in FX full frame terms.
In other words, that would be like mounting my late Canon lenses on a full frame camera, or placing a lens on an APS-C body. Or by putting a lens on a micro four thirds camera. It's tiny, cheap, and weighs hardly anything. There really are no glaring downsides, other than an absence of full weather sealing and the plastic build. Can we get more reach in a small and manageable size? The Sony f4 is not a particularly small or light lens, but it isn't massive either - but the Sony cameras in question are small and light.
There is a caveat which comes into play when sensor size increases - if you're fairly close to an animal or bird a wide aperture can make life difficult - the depth of field is so shallow.
I find that when I use my APS-C cameras in the field the requirement to stop down a little does mean boosting the ISO in many situations in order to maintain a workable shutter speed.
Here are some examples of the Sony f4G in the field:. My next pick, and one which offers a little more length, would be the Canon STM.
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