I want to learn photography, with emphasis on birds and animals. I don't know what kind of photographic equipment to buy Canon 550D or Nikon D90 with lens is best ... Thank you.

Classmate, you may take it for granted.

Birds and beasts are difficult subjects to shoot, which requires not only high photography skills but also powerful equipment.

Because birds and animals can't be very close to you, with a short and medium focal length lens, the proportion of the subject on the screen is too small to shoot anything. So you must have a telephoto lens. Basically, it takes more than 400MM lens to shoot birds.

How much is the 400MM+ lens? Canon's cheapest 400MM F/5.6 lens 10000 yuan, and this is basically impossible to buy. There is no anti-shake, no large aperture, and the picture quality is very average. The best shots for shooting birds are 400 F/2.8 and 600 F/4.0, and the prices are 67,000 and 73,000 respectively.

Most lenses with this focal length are fixed focus, and the zoom quality is generally not good, and there is no large aperture. Fixed focus means that you can only shoot these limited objects with such expensive equipment.

In addition, because birds and animals move faster, and you can't always shoot in very good lighting, which means you need a large aperture lens to ensure correct exposure and lock the subject. In addition, you need a fuselage with high sensitivity and good continuous shooting performance. Canon will take at least 7 days. Nikon at least D300S. 1D4 or D3S is king. You chose these two fuselage, not that there is no, but that it is difficult. There may not be many good films when you go out to shoot.

The embarrassing thing about this theme is that the equipment is very demanding and unique, and it can only be done if you buy this. So if you buy cheap ones, you can only spend money for nothing. If what you buy is expensive, you have to spend more money. . . . In the final analysis, a money.

By the way, 10400 said 80-400, far more than 1400. This shot is 9800+. He may have missed a 0. The 300MM lens can't hit the bird, which is not long enough.

I don't want to fool you or hurt you. Let's change the subject. It's not funny to recommend some useless waste products to you irresponsibly. There are too many things out of reach.

That's all. Shooting birds is not the only theme of photography. Good luck!