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This morning I was out checking on a couple of wildlife photo subjects.
Saw a small group of migrating warblers. Was not sure of the identification at first. They were spooky. I could not get within 40 feet of them unless they were deep among the willows, and then I could barely see them. My cameras were the R3 and R5; the lenses were the 100-500 and 1.4 and the 24-105/4.
I had a very difficult time picking up those tiny birds amongst the flowering pussy willows. I did not get single photo worth a damn. It was simply impossible for me to pick up one of those warblers amidst that jungle in time to get focus and trigger the shot. I needed a couple of seconds to pull that one off and got a second and a half.
I feel a DSLR would have given me a slight uptick in success. The optical finder is a bit more forgiving in my eyes. Yes, the mirrorless cameras have greatly appreciated advantage in focus precision, and often quickness, but often target acquisition suffers, particularly in complex, dense, confusing situations.
My DSLR was with me, sort of. A mile hike back, along with my 100-4004.5-5.6 ii and 1.4x iii converter. Most times I do not carry all that I can carry. Old bones hurt at the end of the day. But this day a DSLR might well have been the better selection. If I had known.
There are times when I realize my DSLR and appropriate lenses would be the better choice. For others, perhaps they do not "need" the latest and greatest and are perfectly happy to get photographs which will be unidentifiable on nearly any platform, the web to a gallery. To heck with mirrorless, DSLR, brand, format. Unidentifiable.
Get, make the photograph. Use the tools you have, the tools you prefer, and, most importantly, the tools which best suit the job. And most importantly, guess right.
Let us not say this forum is for only the latest and greatest and the not yet actually available. Making photographs can be a Z8 with a 400/4.5 unavailable or an R5ii and 100-300/2.8 which have not seen the light of day, and those make great subjects for wasting a lot of internet band width. Would not it be nice if as much time were spent on actually making a photograph.
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