i take photos of all sorts of nature, but usually plants and arthropods since that’s usually what’s most plentiful in my area. i usually shoot with a 10-year-old camera that has 18x zoom, 10MP, built-in flash (good to ~2m), manual focus ability, macro mode that allows me to shoot things even just a…

Colin, I appreciate your perspective and hope that you can similarly find mine respectful and noncritical, because a few months ago I would have written the exact same paragraph about the advantages of a built-in GPS. Since then, what I’ve actually found is that syncing a .gpx tracklog from another…

If you are using a camera, you’re submitting observations via the iNaturalist website. I plan to take a geotagged cellphone photo at the same time as the camera shot, send it to computer (I seldom submit from the app) upload both at once, and merge the camera shot into the geotagged observation, vo…

Janet, for a while I had one camera that had GPS but couldn’t take closeups as well as the other camera I had that didn’t have GPS, so I would do the same thing you’re talking about. It gets the job done.

I take a lot of macro shots - insects, lichens, liverworts, etc. Last summer I picked up an Olympus Tough TG-5. Besides being ruggedized (waterproof, dustproof, etc ), it also does in-camera focus stacking. It will take 10 shots in about a second at different focal points and then merge them. The me…

Hi er1kksen, Thanks for your thoughtful post/explanation. It could be that I’m guilty of “assumptions adding a hassle”…and believe me I have nothing against using an external logger. But the times I’ve actually tried, it was considerably more of a “hassle” than using my Nikon P600 or 900 with bui…

I’m quite happy with my Sony HX400V. GPS onboard, excellent zoom for really distant stuff, and a usable manual focus (that last is something where many bridge cameras fail utterly). Pretty useless for anything less than 0.5 cm long, does best with things at least ~2cm in scale. Light enough to take…

The existing topic tiwane posted has a lot of good info that includes some apps and programs I didn’t previously know about. iPhil’s post covers the process with Geosetter- you could do it identically with the smartphone app I use, GPXlogger, just plugging the phone into the computer and downloading…

[image] reuvenm: Any combination of these can be found on some bridge camera, but not all four together from what I’ve been able to find. Sony HX400V has GPS, 50x optical zoom (100x digital), manual focus and good priority modes too… It struggles with the little stuff, but couple it with a di…

A statistic about the various camera models used on iNat would be cool ;)

Good cameras for nature shots

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@colincroft there’s a topic on geotagging here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/geotagging-photos/66

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