I get asked regularly by people wanting to know what camera I would recommend. I am not going to recommend anything specific, Instead I am going to ask a few questions that you as the prospective purchaser should be asking yourself. I see the local Game store sells people DSLR cameras when they ask about shooting in the Kruger National Park and I am horrified.

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There I was in my back garden watching the birds, Cape white eyes, mannikins, sunbirds, turacos, mousebirds and more when I got lucky. This chap hovered for just long enough for my really bad 500 lense to get into focus. At 1/500th of a second the wings are beating so fast they are a blur. This photograph does not actually do the bird justice. The light was a little bright.

Collared Sunbird