I’m thinking of perhaps buying a bridge camera for the outings I go on in photographing nature and hiking. Unfortunately, my budget is limited, so I am looking at the cheaper bridge models (e.g. Canon SX540, Nikon Coolpix B600). Has anyone had a good experience in using bridge cameras for bird phot…

I use a DSLR, but know many birders who use bridge cameras. Bridge cameras are better if your goal is just to document birds, since they have better zoom. However you will not get the sharp crisp photos that a DSLR with a good lens can get. I’ve heard that bridge cameras are harder for birds in fli…

I use a Nikon COOLPIX B700 for all of my bird photography. I find it works great. The zoom is about the best you can get on any camera without a massive and expensive telephoto lens. I highly recommend it.

I used Canon PowerShot SX30 IS in 2011 (here’re all photos of birds from that period) , bridge cameras can certainly photograph birds in flight, big problem for me is that to zoom it takes time, so unlike dslr you either have to leave it turn on all the time or you can miss many moments while zooming…

I use a P900 and I get decent enough pics for iNat for sure a lot of the time. In-flight is kinda hard though, yes, although certainly not impossible, at least for bigger birds. Let’s say this and this are IDable, but that’s the best I’d dare to call them, while on a good day and with a slower-flyi…

I got a Canon PowerShot SX740HS specifically to photograph birds for iNaturalist. It’s great for iNaturalist but most of the photos aren’t especially high quality for printing and such if that is what you are interested in. The 40x zoom is wonderful. I’ve used the 40x zoom for almost every photo I’v…

I use a Panasonic Lumix DC-FZ80 for birds. It has 60× zoom, which is just barely enough to get IDable photos of tiny things in the tops of conifers. As far as the viewfinder question, it has a fake one but I just use the screen. I haven’t gotten very good pictures of birds in flight, which I think i…

Like keirmorse, i have too a sx740hs. Is it good? Well it depends - a) is your goal to document observations on iNat?: hell yeah, even with distant birds in flight as long as you use center focus it is relatively easy to take decent pictures to make and ID. I often stretch the zoom to 80x (which is…

I use a Nikon Coolpix P900 for nature photography. The strong zoom makes it particularly suitable for animals at greater distances. Such large focal lengths cannot be achieved with a DSLR. However, the quality of the images is not as good as with a DSLR and a high quality lens.

I also use a Canon SX70HS. For iNaturalist, for identification, it’s great! I can get reasonably good close-ups and lots of good distant shots. It can get good flight photos. In sunlight, the picture quality is quite good. In shade, less so. Picture quality, even in sunlight, is not as good as…

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I use a Nikon P1000 for bird photography. I love it, but I don’t have much luck with birds in flight.

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