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Safari Camera & Lens Advice & Beyond

Started Oct 26, 2021 | Questions thread
evertdoorn Regular Member • Posts: 159
Re: Safari Camera & Lens Advice & Beyond
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If you have the possiblity to rent; do that. You'll know if you like it and you can always buy it later.

So, from someone with a fair bit of experience shooting wildlife (insta: thewildsite) and having been to Rwanda eons back to see the gorilla's, here's what I think:

For a general safari lens, the 100-500 is great.

For gorilla's, you probably don't need the reach (it's on a densely overgrown vulcano and trust me - there might be a rule that you keep 7m distance from the gorilla's, but they might not listen to that; I had a silverback basically drooling in my neck..).

So you'll get close enough probably with something like a 70-200. The 2.8 aperture would work well here considering the fact there could be less light (often foggy weather, dense vegetation, etc. - plus in particular the younger gorilla's move a lot, so you might need the shutter speed). But considering the low light capabilities of the R6, and depending on the light, the 100-500 could do well here.

That wider lens will be useful as well, you'll want to show the surroundings of Virunga too.

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