10-10-2015 10:31 PM
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For birds-in-flight, a camera with a fast continuous burst speed and a good buffer size will help.
A 70D would be an upgrade... a 7D II would be an even better upgrade (much better focus system, faster burst speed, etc.)
The other consideration is the lens. While it's nice to have a 600mm lens to capture shots, the angle of view through a 600mm lens is very narrow. So if the bird goes out of frame (and it will) you'll have a hard time re-acquiring your target. So it's NICE to have a zoom that lets you drop the focal length to an angle of view that isn't so tight... find and re-center your subject, and then zoom back in to focus and shoot.
There are a couple of 150-600mm lenses on the market (by Tamron and Sigma -- neither of which I have any experience using so I wont bother to comment or recommend a particular lens.) Canon makes the 100-400mm lenses but in longer focal lengths the zooms tend to get very expensive (the 200-400mm with builting 1.4x extender is the longest "zoom" they make and the rest of the super-telephoto lenses are primes.) The Tamron and Sigma 150-600mm lenses seem to be popular among the birding photography crowd.
11-09-2015 09:54 AM
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