What is the Best Focal Length for Wildlife Photography?

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Another of the important wildlife photography tips is to grab a gimbal tripod head. We talk alot about gimbals in our videography articles, using them as stabilization for video movement.

That’s not the gimbal we’re talking about for capturing still images of wildlife. A tripod head gimbal is a mount that lets you rapidly reposition the camera and lens to follow the subject while still giving a stable platform for shooting.

As you can see, choosing the best focal length for wildlife photography is not a cut and dried job. There are a lot of excellent choices available, even the option of using a pro or prosume level APS-C camera opens up our available lens preferences.

Most likely, like me and thousands of other serious wildlife photographers, you’ll end up with more than one of these wildlife photography lenses.

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