Mirrorless any good for wildlife?

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Just wondering if the CSC's have a decent combo for wildlife photography? are the 300mm lenses any good compared to dslr ones ? Or is dslr still the best at the moment ? in terms of speed and IQ
 
There's not much about in terms of decent telephotos for mirrorless systems to be honest. Micro four thirds do OK with the Pana 100-300mm and Oly do a 75-300mm. One of the issues I've found with using longer (albeit legacy) lenses on mirror less cameras is that the bodies feel very light compared to the longer lenses. Not an issue on a tripod of course though.
 
For stationary (or slow moving at least) subjects, then you can get some good results with M4/3 (I have a friend who does this) but once you want to capture fast moving stuff, then you need a very good level DSLR - birds in flight require a fast AF and quality lenses if you want anything approaching a good hit rate
 
I love my 60d sigma 100-300 f4, its a bit heavy but don't find it a problem and tbh wouldn't dream of getting rid of them but was wondering if there was something smaller and lighter when i didn't want the weight, obviously done some research but can't find anything that seems to comes close from what i've read, just wondering if i'm missing something?
 
Mirrorless AF is only now starting to become useful for tracking objects with decent success (Olympus E-M1, Fuji X-T1, Sony a6000). This still doesn't resolve the issue around a lack of long lenses, and how they'd balance on a small body in any case. Olympus has a 300/4 in the works (600mm equivalent) and Fuji have a long zoom in the pipeline for 2015 I believe, which will resolve one of the issues :)
 
bridge camera?

but small body and on sensor focusing arent great, which ever way you get that, for long lens work
 
pooley said:
For stationary (or slow moving at least) subjects, then you can get some good results with M4/3 (I have a friend who does this) but once you want to capture fast moving stuff, then you need a very good level DSLR - birds in flight require a fast AF and quality lenses if you want anything approaching a good hit rate
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Pretty much agree entirely with that Mike.

I recently got a Panasonic M43 with the 100-300 zoom. It is decent at low iso with subjects that are not moving fast. Birds in flight seem pretty impossible to get to be honest,although that may be me still learning how to use the kit properly.

The reason I bought it is purely down to the size, it is so small and light that it is a joy to carry about all day. It is adequate for hide work and larger/slower subjects.
 
Ill stick with dslr for most things, had bridge cameras but all pretty crap when you look at the pics on a computer, small sensors and massive zooms don't work very well. The FZ1000 looks good with a much bigger sensor but ill wait for the price to drop
 
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