Camera - what lenses
Went through several NP's last year. My digital camera (10x zoom) was fine for most pictures but there was times when I wish I had a better telephoto lens for wildlife pictures. Looking a new came...
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You're going to have ask yourself this question: "what kind of pictures do I want to end up with?" From your post you may not need a large DSLR camera, those small "pocket-sized" cameras have incredible zooms now days. We were in Alaska in March to view/shoot the Aurora Boriealis, there was a guy in our tour party that had a Panasonic Lumix with I believe a 20X zoom. While his shots of the Aurora weren't all that great his wildlife shots were! I had my Nikon D90 with the kit lens 55mm to 200mm and his wildlife photos kicked butt on mine! And I had to drag all my (heavy) camera stuff along with me, all he had to do was drop his camera in his shirt pocket. BTW his night-time pictures of the ice sculptures in Fairbanks were great!
There's a lot to be said for large sensor cameras, I wish I had the dough for a full frame camera, my Aurora pictures would've turned out better but what I did get was pretty darn good and besides how often am I going to be in Alaska, in March shooting Northern Lights? Not too often so my DX or APS-C size sensor camera is OK for me.
So it boils down to what you want to spend, how much hassle you can endure lugging around a bunch of photography equipment and how good you want your pictures to turn out, only YOU can answer that question. Do your home work, choose wisely.
Hope this helps.
Dan
There's a lot to be said for large sensor cameras, I wish I had the dough for a full frame camera, my Aurora pictures would've turned out better but what I did get was pretty darn good and besides how often am I going to be in Alaska, in March shooting Northern Lights? Not too often so my DX or APS-C size sensor camera is OK for me.
So it boils down to what you want to spend, how much hassle you can endure lugging around a bunch of photography equipment and how good you want your pictures to turn out, only YOU can answer that question. Do your home work, choose wisely.
Hope this helps.
Dan
