I always get excited to get a notification of a new video! Love them! I will be with you next week, and am really looking forward to photographing your beautiful animals with you!

@PangolinWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

Great to hear, thank you Barbara

Excellent video. Thanks.

Love your content! After watching 1 video on your channel, I had to watch them all. Hope I can come down to Chobe again in the future and experience one of your trips.

@PangolinWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Rino. We appreciate you taking the time to watch our series. More to come...

I really like your translation of the preferred photographic equipment for working in the animal world. Short and to the point.thx

I am a big fan of Pangolin. Last year I was lucky enough to do 4 pangolin boat sessions. I thought I knew my photography bu Janine took me to the next level. Just need to plan a proper Pangolin trip. This video was helpful. I always end up talking way too much in terms of lenses and then don’t use every item. End up paying excess baggage for nothing.

Hello everyone. Please can we ask you a favour? In an attempt to make sure that KZread is full of decent content there is a threshold that a channel must reach before they give you more exposure. This threshold sits at 1000 subscribers. All we are asking is that you take a moment to subscribe to the channel so that we can reach this milestone sooner. By doing so you will also be notified when we load new films - especially if you press the little bell button next to it to turn on email notification. We promise to keep the content interesting and we welcome any suggestions below as to topics you would like us to cover. Thank you so very much. Guts and Toby

@mariocostard148

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Toby, thanks for your answer. That’s perfect. I have bought a back pack especially for travelling with you. I will send you a message to let you know the weight of this baggage.

That is some really nice gear. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and insights!

@PangolinWildlife

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Really appreciate your kind words

Good info, thanks! I'm always trying to figure out the best combination of gear to take and I usually over pack. I'm trying to really lighten the load in my pack.

@PangolinWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the feedback Steve

👏🏻🌹

Here there, Would like to know which best and its gears to use in the ceremonies, live in Africa thanks

what bag you are using for th gear ??

Thanks for this valuable info! For Sony gear the FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS is a good reasonably affordable lens. With that you don't necessarily need an expensive prime. It's also not too heavy to handle.

@PangolinWildlife

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree!

Your gear is a little more complete than most. It is interesting to see what the pro's are carrying to cover more or less everything, unfortunately I like most fall into the 2 bodies three lenses. This is your "Safari" gear and great to see; what do you take when you are carrying it all cross country? Love this channel, keep them flowing!

@sabine-pangolinphotohost9232

4 жыл бұрын

Andrew James Hi Andrew. Thank you for commenting. Yes it is quite a bit of equipment and we rarely take everything when traveling cross country via plane (e.g. leaving macro/portrait lenses behind when going on wildlife safaris). However we do have a bit of an advantage of being two people and mostly manage to distribute the equipment equally between each other. And yes, we are still overweight but somehow so far always managed to get it through as hand luggage. In smaller charter flights we either book an extra freight seat or pay the overweight.

How do you get around the weight restrictions on flightS?

you are looking at over £35.000 worth of photographic equipments

very nice 💖

@PangolinWildlife

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Are there any lens covers you'd recommend? I bought one for my 200-500mm off eBay but it doesn't fit great :/

How is the Tamron 300mm f2.8?

I want for this challenges in Pangolin Photo Safaris

I have a prime 400mm prime lens what bags do you like to carry everything on a plane.

@martinbyrne6643

4 жыл бұрын

I have one ‘ it’s to heavy to have it on carry on ‘ leave it at home

Sabine or Charl, which lens do you think would be better for wildlife photography. A Canon 100-400mm with a canon 1.4 extender or a Tamron 150-600mm? Thanks in advance :)

@PangolinWildlife

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Steven both lenses are good to their abilities. The Canon 100-400mm MK2 is a much sharper lens and has better IS. The Tamron 150-600mm G2 is also sharp but not as good as the Canon 100-400mm MKII. The advantage of the Tamron is that you can shoot at f6.3 at 600mm and with the x1.4 converter on the 100-400mm you will be at f8.0 on 600-640mm. So this will make a big difference if you shoot a lot in low light conditions. Even that the Canon 100-400mm MKII is double the price than the Tamron 150-600mm I would go for the Canon as between 100-400mm I'm guaranteed with a better image quality especially if you shoot mostly mammals. I hope this helps, cheers Charl.

@Wiskers56

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Charl, I appreciate the insight!

It is probably best to use the lens on a crop sensor camera instead of using either 1.4x or 2x converter as the 2x in particular may dregade the quality of the image file. Personaly I think you have too much gear. As for the remotes, well, I do not use Cannon but on the Nikon we can use our mobiles as remotes. If you have a light sturdy tripod great but consider using a good monopad as these can also have tripod feet so to speak and are lighter to carry. Last but not least, if you can afford them use weather sealed cameras and lens. It is also best if you do not change lens while out there just have different focal lens on each camera.

Do a video where there are weight restrictions limiting everything to 33lbs. Half those prime lenses would have to stay home.:)

Insane equipment... And this is all stuff more then $30000 I things ....

What camera bag do you use?

@PangolinWildlife

3 жыл бұрын

A very old lowe pro, it is time for an upgrade though!

Hi Sabine, Charl, my problem is less a question of space than a question of weight. Lynne sent me an email to inform me that the luggages should not weigh more than 13 and 7kg. My camera stuff is a bit more than 13kg. I would like use mine, that I know rather than your materials. An advice ? Thanks

@PangolinWildlife

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Mario. the charter airlines that we work with understand that our clients have more gear than most and make allowances. As long as you are not arriving with big plastic cases like Pelicans you will be ok. If we know in advance that you have lots of gear we can let them know. Toby

I would like to bring my own camera with a 500 mm lens with my laptop along with backup suds and with other gadgets such as intervelometer,cleaning materials etc. I hope that’s ok

@PangolinWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

Hello. Yes no problem. bring the above with you but also a shorter lens too as we do get quite close to our subjects some times!

@frostybe3r

3 жыл бұрын

@@PangolinWildlife I've currently got a R5 & EF 600 f4 MK2, I've got RF lenses but I'm wondering if I should sell my RF 70-200 2.8 as I just don't see myself using it much, do you think I should sell it?

@tkermi

3 жыл бұрын

@@frostybe3r Hmm...🤔 I think you might need something that can focus closer / have wider FoV. So if you have two camera bodies it would be nice to have that 70-200mm in the other one.

@frostybe3r

3 жыл бұрын

@@tkermi Meh keeping my RF 70-200

@tkermi

3 жыл бұрын

@@frostybe3r 🙂 I think that's a good choice. I don't have that kens myself but I have read/saw that it's really good. Though it would have been nice if it could be used with teleconverters. I think that in theory it could be if Canon would make a suitable RF extension tube between the lens and the TC. With that the outcome would be different than the TC value, but I don't think that it would matter at all (1,4x would be something like ~1,6x etc.).

Wow’d by what you can do and how good your Images are, but overawed at the Kit. I have neither the budget nor weight allowance to cope with that much. We do quite a bit of ‘Safaring on foot’. Priority is to push our Cash into the trips themselves, which we do quite frequently (for us that is). I have Canon 50d and 5d Mk iii, with lenses - EF 16-35 mm 1:4 L IS USM, an EF 24-105 mm 1:4 L IS USM, and an EF 100-400mm 1:4.5-5.6 L IS Ultrasonic. What others could/should I consider that will give me reach. Some folks are telling me to buy converters and others are adamant that will not work anyway. Am bamboozled with tech speak & need expert guidance to be prepared for a 4 day stay at Jaci’s Tree Camp in Madikwe in October next (hopefully) and 2 weeks in Sth Luangwa NP. Love to hear you thoughts. Thanks.

@PangolinWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

Hi. First I would suggest, if you dont do so already, to pack everything in a comfortable rucksack style camera bag then the airlines rarely check the weight at check in... just stand there looking strong. As to the lenses I think you have a good range on two bodies. At Jacis the 100-400 will be great especially in the Terrapin Hide. The weight will also be good for hand holding in the game viewers. At both Madikwe and South Luangwa off roading is permitted so you will be able to get quite close to teh subjects and SL is also really good for some landscapes too. When you get to Jaci's please say hi to her and her husband Jan for us....you will love it!

@WildlifeObsessed

4 жыл бұрын

Pangolin Wildlife Photography - Thanks. Appreciated, but love to hear any views on ‘Convertors’ or whether I should go for 500mm, though the cost is staggering - particularly the I versus II

You have almost all the bases covered, except for 01 item, I don't see a good mic in there, if you are doing videos, you need a good mic with a muffler.

boring ZZZZzzzzz

@PangolinWildlife

4 жыл бұрын

It would appear you are in the minority Sebastian based on the comments below. Perhaps you would like to enlighten us as to how you would make this less sleep-inducing. Constructive criticism would be welcome.

@dominiqueleblanc2193

3 жыл бұрын

@@PangolinWildlife don't waste your time on people like that, just trolling around. Nothing better to do.

@PangolinWildlife

3 жыл бұрын

@@dominiqueleblanc2193 it would seem so....