How to shoot birds flying at high speed? What camera do you recommend?

Shooting birds flying at high speed requires a certain camera and lens. Followed by the shooting experience!

Common bird-catching cameras are Canon's 1Dx with 640 lens, Nikon's D500, D5 and D850 cameras with 428,640,856 fixed-focus lenses, and Nikon's 200-500 zoom lens. There are also some factory lenses, such as Yima 150-600 and Longteng 150.

In fact, you don't have to use high-end cannon to shoot birds. Good cameras and lenses do take good photos, but if you are happy and have limited economic conditions, ordinary equipment can also bring you a good mood!

I used Nikon D8 10 with Nikon 200-500 lens for this photo. The photo was taken in the first phase of Nanhaizi Park in Beijing. The shutter speed of this camera is only 6 frames per second! Change to DX format, only 7 sheets per second! But you can also take pictures of birds!

This is a photo taken in Beijing Beihai Park. At that time, Nikon D7 100 was used with Longteng 150-600 lens. The advantage is closer to Yuanyang! I used a shutter speed of 1600, an aperture of f8 and automatic sensitivity. This exposure combination!

This photo of the marijuana shrew was taken in Beijing Olympic Park with Nikon D8 10 original 200-500 lens. When shooting a bird, we mainly know its habits, know its posture before flying, and start continuous shooting as soon as there is any movement. Why should sensitivity be automatic? As soon as it lights up, the conditions change, and now it is too late to adjust the parameters. If the sensitivity is automatic, and the sensitivity is automatically adjusted with the change of light conditions, then the exposure will become correct by increasing or decreasing the sensitivity.

I have been shooting birds 1 for many years. My personal experience is that any camera can shoot birds as long as it has a telephoto lens, but the success rate and quality of shooting are related to the performance and experience of the camera.

In terms of equipment, in order to achieve high success rate and good image quality, we need a camera with fast focus, strong focus pursuit, fast continuous shooting speed and high definition. The most professional cameras with the strongest new functions are Canon 1DX3, Canon R5, Nikon D6, Sony a9II, and the half cameras are Canon 90D and Nikon D500. In addition, Olympus, Fuji, Panasonic, etc. If you have a photography foundation and a sufficient budget, it is recommended to buy the best camera and lens in one step. If you are a photographer, it is recommended to buy half a machine to practice your hands first.

In addition to bird shooting equipment, birds also need experience. The flight direction and speed of birds should be predicted, and the camera should follow the prediction. In addition, parameter setting, especially the relationship between shutter setting and shooting clarity and effect, should also set the shutter according to the flight speed of birds. There are many specific contents, so I won't go into details here.

Show some photos of birds I took myself.

Sony a9 plus 200/600 lens combination is recommended, which should be the most cost-effective combination of Bird at present.

Main features: strong focusing ability, fast continuous shooting speed and fast focusing speed. Light weight, the general male arm strength can be hand-held. The imaging quality is also very good at this price (but it is definitely not as good as a fixed-focus lens, and the price is far from it. )

In fact, 1 2 photos were taken in the picture1. Because there was too much overlap, these pictures were pasted up. The second picture is Dacui, which was taken at a distance of about seven meters. It's not cut. The original picture, anyone who knows it, will know that this kind of shooting is difficult (it requires extremely high focusing ability of the machine). Figure 3 is the flying version of the night heron, which can be counted as the flying version. It can be seen that the color performance and Jiao Wai are not bad.

When shooting birds, the equipment factors are cameras and lenses.

The camera should have high speed, high sensitivity, strong continuous shooting performance, the lens should be as large as possible, and the aperture and focal length should be long. I won't go into details about the specific indicators.

So, whether the bird can be photographed well depends on the head behind the camera.

I think there are several factors that must be controlled to shoot birds well. The first is the shutter speed, followed by the aperture. Adequate shutter speed is the basic condition to ensure non-pasting. This is easy to understand, but some people wonder: Is aperture important? Very important! Try to control it. Otherwise, the bird shooting environment is complicated and the branches are vertical and horizontal. Only by controlling the aperture can the subject be separated from the front background and the aesthetic feeling of the work be increased.

If both are controllable, it is obvious that only M exposure can be used.

At the same time, exposure compensation must also be controllable.

The background and brightness of birds will change at any time. In the case of spot metering, it is very important to predict the possible flight trajectory of birds and then preset the exposure compensation value in order to ensure the correct exposure of the subject!

Many beginners are confused here. How to expose compensation for M file? Sure！ Just set ISO Auto. And ISO automation is exactly what we need. The uncertain flight path of birds has different background light and shade, so different ISO values must be required to match it. However, this index cannot be adjusted manually and quickly when shooting, so it is just right to hand it over to the camera for processing. Of course, ISO has to set a limit manually, and cameras should not be confused. My bird shooting equipment is D6+640E, which can provide me with the highest demand for creation. In extreme cases, the ISO limit of 1W can also produce fine products.

In addition, I think the above are some basic skills to shoot birds well. The key is to flexibly choose different autofocus areas according to local conditions, so that the camera can focus effectively and keep the whole subject clear. My D6 optional area is very rich and flexible, including single point, 9: 00, 25: 00, 49: 00, 105: 00, 3D, auto and group C 1, C2, etc. The operator can choose according to the environment and the actual situation of the subject. However, due to this selection area, various brands and models of cameras are very different, and the reproducibility of the operation is not strong, so I won't go into details.

The following film is my continuous focusing of birds.

My opinion on the recommended model mentioned by the subject still varies from person to person.

First of all, have you used a camera before? If so, what brand did you buy at first? Try to buy what brand of bird shooting equipment, ensure universality, try not to kill the door, and increase investment in vain.

Secondly, we should try our best to buy the best according to our own abilities and try our best to achieve our goals in one step. At present, Nikon is D6+640E, Canon is1dxiii or R5+640, and Sony is a9ll+640. As for the semi-camera, I first recommend Nikon D500 and Canon 90D.

Third, if financial resources are tight, you can choose a zoom lens. I suggest that Sigma 156S is the first choice.

Fourthly, if considering the cost performance, I would recommend Sony a9+260 first for beginners. It smells good, who knows who uses it!

It depends on a person's economic conditions. Sharpness is the key to bird-shooting, and the flying version is the highest realm of bird-shooting. If you pay attention to sharpness, I would like to recommend a century-old classic SLR camera, Nikon.

If the economic conditions are good, please choose d6. There is nothing more to say. The sharpness of Nikon camera is recognized by everyone. Many people like to count their hair when shooting birds. Nikon can meet your requirements. D6 full-frame camera is Nikon's highest-end flagship machine, and its speed in continuous shooting is more than ten. If you can't afford it, choose Nikon d500. This SLR camera is specially designed for shooting birds and sports, and its module adopts d6. Continuous shooting is very fast, and the shutter sound with metallic texture is very pleasant. At present, this camera is about 10,000 yuan, which is the most expensive of half a SLR camera, and it is worth the money.

I recommend Canon to you. Canon SLR camera is currently the largest selling camera brand, ranking high in the list. Its 1dx2 is the most ideal bird-shooting model in flagship machine. Sharpness and texture are very powerful. At present, its half-width machine is mainly 7dmk2, with continuous shooting speed 10, and the price is relatively cheap, about 6,000.

To shoot birds flying at high speed, don't consider high-pixel cameras, such as Nikon d850 and Canon 5d4.

Birds are easy to shoot, but big birds are easy to shoot. Whether it's bird hunting or bird hunting, there are times when it's easy and difficult to shoot. Birds flying in a straight line at a long distance are easy to be shot. Birds with short distances and fast flight paths are difficult to photograph. Birds with the background of the sky and calm water are easy to photograph, while birds with bright and complex backgrounds such as branches and leaves are difficult to photograph.

Why do people try to photograph birds in flight? Because it is difficult to shoot, there are few good photos, and things are rare, so it is very fulfilling to shoot birds in flight. How difficult is it to photograph birds in flight? The first thing is to find and track birds from the perspective of narrow telephoto lens. This is a skill that beginners must master and need more practice. The only shortcut is to install a red dot sight on the camera, which is the optical sight on the weapons of special forces in various countries. Note that this is not the kind of sight on a sniper rifle. This is not amplification, which is convenient for users to aim quickly. It is much easier to track birds in flight with a red dot sight. After skillfully using the red dot sight, the body has formed muscle memory. You can pick up the camera and aim at the flying birds, or you can gradually switch to shooting with the camera viewfinder. Another problem in shooting birds in flight is focusing. On the one hand, this problem needs to set the functions of the camera according to the characteristics of bird flight, such as the number of focal points, focusing sensitivity and tracking sensitivity. It is also necessary to help the camera identify the subject manually to avoid interference from other scenes, prepare for focusing in advance, and grasp the timing of pressing the shutter.

There are many technical essentials for shooting birds in flight, and you can write a book. The following points can be summarized: 1, accurate and stable tracking; 2. Appropriate function setting; 3. Skilled operation and timing.

Regardless of budget constraints, the best camera on the market at present should be Sony A9m2+600 fixed focus (or 400 fixed focus), and the price is about 18w- 17w. If you have some shooting experience, you can also buy a suitable camera within 3w, such as Canon 5d4+ 100~400. The following pictures were taken at 5d3+70 ~ 200 (2nd generation).

I never have to pat a bird, because I think using continuous shooting is equivalent to choosing one from a film, and there is always a sense of satisfaction, but if you shoot alone, it depends on how you master the degree like Catch. I once photographed a group of sparrows with flash marriage, and took 8 photos in 19 seconds, and chose 60% as a group. 19 seconds is read from the value on the camera.

Of course, I'm not too satisfied with the shooting. Please give me more guidance.

Shooting birds flying at high speed mainly depends on the sensitivity of the photographer's thinking, that is, a person.

How fast is the response? Because you want to photograph the bird's flying posture, you must first know when the bird will fly and press the shutter when flying, that is, you should practice observing the bird's dynamics more. As for cameras, as long as there is multi-point continuous autofocus or automatic tracking focusing, there are cameras with shutter speed above11000, whether it is a residual frame or a full-frame machine.

C telephoto lens shooting turtledove flying photography for reference, thank you!

Personally, I feel it is difficult to catch birds, so I need to practice shooting single birds more. I began to study and explore, and I believe that practice makes perfect.