I've long been a proponent of the adage "The best camera is the one you have with you". And I still am. HOWEVER, that doesn't quite mean that the camera you have with you is necessarily the best camera...
Case in point: I recently made a late afternoon walk at Watershed Nature Center. Given the time, and the weather, and my mood, I decided to NOT plan on photography, and didn't take one of my "real" cameras. Naturally, I came across this Hawk hanging out in one of the small trees just offthe trai:
If I had my Fujifilm with my 55-200mm lens (78-300mm equivalent) I might've managed a decent photo. If I owned a longer lens, it would've been even better. But I don't own a longer lens, and my telephoto was safe at home. So I pulled out my phone as quietly as I could and took a photo with that. You can see it above, the Hawk is the spot in the middle.
Using lots of cropping, you can at least tell it is a hawk:
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I tried to inch quietly closer, but the hawk almost immediately took off, flying parallel to my position. I took 2 more phone shots, only one of which fired before the hawk was obscured by tree branches. Below is a crop and an extreme crop of that photo:
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Oh well, huh? So the camera a had with me (phone) was certainly better than no camera, but dramatically worse than my idea camera. Which still wasn't as good as options outside my budget.
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