Foto at top: Holland Bearded Tit wife (Baardman) 12m in shadow Nikon Z50 Nikkor 500mm f/5.6E PF VR TC-20E III equivalent 1500mm. Camera, telelens, converter are high qualitylightweight Nikon equipment. The actual luxurous 35mm equivalent is rather unique and ore less equal to that of our very first digiscoping combination Nikon Fieldscope ED82 30x Nikon 1 V1 1 Nikkor 18.5mm, equivalent 1500mm.
Nikon is often the first one offering (semi) professional products suited for affordable lightweight bird photography:
- Nikons first digital DSLR D1
- Digicompact Coolpix 5100 with RAW support. A simple digicompact, yet RAW support!
- Series 1 Mirrorless camera’s with daring 2.7 crop factor (hindsight: too daring!) and continued support of classic F-mount lenses via FT1 adapter: V1, V3 and J5 (same image sensor architecture as D500!); MLC Series 1 in 2023 reborn as Nikons Z Series.
- Ultra light high quality lightweight telelenses 300mm f/4E PF VR (770 gram), 500mm f/5.6E PF VR (1450 gram) and Z Nikkor 400m f/4.5 S (1245 gram) featuring Phase Fresnel technology producing rich detail even at larger distance, ideally suited for bird photography!
- Affordable pro quality full frame DSLR’s like D700 and D750.
- Z mirrorless system camera’s with world’s largest light transmission opening for this type of camera and a collection of top quality S-line lenses plus continued support for classic F-mount lenses, including EISA award winner Z50 crop factor 1.5, ideal for lightweight bird photography.
High quality aspherical TC-20E III teleconverter with luxurous 1500mm equivalent and handholdable combinations. We use it frequently. Look at pictures Kingfisher, Black-tailed Godwit, etcetera below.
