Panasonic fz28 lenses question

[andy brown]

Hi, into general photography of wildlife and insects mainly butterflies and moths and want to photo more birds as we are off to India later in the year on safari, I have a Panasonic DMC FZ 28 which for all round general performance is great. I am looking a maybe getting macro and zoom lens attachments, due to the cost I don’t want to just jump in so am here looking for someone to help so I can make a considered purchase.

Many thanks

Andy

[squishy]

there are a lot of threads like this, and the general answer is that unless you spend alot on a DSLR and long lens you will probably struggle to get good quality photos of distant subject (a few of those threads have been mine, i use a similar fujifilm bridge camera ).

Macro, however is a bit easier. For smaller insects i use a raynox DCR 250, which is a funny lens to use, and can be tricky, but i'm pleased with the results




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If you are willing to spend abit more than the £50 odd for a raynox, then the canon 500D close-up lens is a better option. it basically does the same thing, but it's abit better quality and more expensive.

You could probably make do with the zoom on the FZ 28, i have only 300mm on my fuji (whereas you have 480 odd) and i managed OK taking photos of the interesting bird life on my recent holiday in Orkney.







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None of those are particularly good quality, but i'm please with them as a photographic record.

Hope that helps

[andy brown]

Thanks for that squishy and as you say there are threads on this already, i have done a bit more reading on this and think i have decided to go for DCR-150 which should be enough for the moths and insects i want to photo (advise otherwise) and olympus 1.7x TCON-17 which has also been rated on safari-guide website, however i will not be purchasing for a couple of weeks so if you have anymore comments/recomenndations i am still open to ideas as i only want to buy once. This is already a great camera just want to make it that much better for the full range of photography

Cheers

Andy

[squishy]

canon also do a lower powered close up, about the same as the DCR 150, the canon 250D

just letting you know

[andy brown]

cheers mate, forgot to great shots by the way

Andy