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This is not just in other countries, walk about any American city and you will see many more people with cell phone cameras in use than regular dedicated cameras. Cell phone cameras are easy to carry, take great casual pictures of people and places, and can instantly be shared on social media. Dedicated cameras are used by more serious photographers and are capable of taking better quality photos for enlargement and display. They also excel when telephoto lenses are required, but require much more work to use than a cell camera.

It's a great shot, worthy of some intensive post processing. Wild animals rarely cooperate and give you a perfect pose with no distractions. Be patient with your processing and we will await patiently for your final result.

Adorama has the Canon T7 with 18-55mm plus a 55-300mm 24mp fo $549.00. That would give her a complete focal range for all the way from landscape to distant wildlife capability. They also have refurbished D5600's with the same two lens package for $589.95. Either would be an excellent starter camera.

Adorama has the Canon T7 with 18-55mm plus a 55-300mm 24mp fo $549.00. That would give her a complete focal range for all the way from landscape to distant wildlife capability. They also have refurbished D5600's with the same two lens package for $589.95. Either would be an excellent starter camera.

Check out the MOVO MB2000 camera carrying system on Amazon. Costs about twice as much but much more versatile, and especially good in warm weather hiking. It's not a full vest so will be much cooler.

Spend some extra dollars and get one with larger pockets and better quality materials. Camera gear is just too valuable. Check Amazon, they have a great assortment of photography vests, good prices.

Spend some extra dollars and get one with larger pockets and better quality materials. Camera gear is just too valuable.

Many years ago I did manage to break a UV filter on a lens, but I don't think the lense would have been damaged as the front element was somewhat recessed any way. I recently purchased a used Pentax HD 55-300 zoom with a Tiffen UV filter. Although most photos appeared to be pretty good, I was frustrated trying to take a good picture if the full moon the past two months. Th IQ of the moon was terrible, everything blurry. Then I removed the filter and bingo, what an improvement. Apparently filters thet won't cause image degradation are very expensive, but still cheaper that a quality lens. If the front element of the lens is recessed, or a lens hood is in place there should be little risk of lense damage. If the front element of the lens is immediately under the filter, then a direct impact will probably break the filter and may damage the lense element anyway. I'm going to forgo the use of filters and just try to be carefull.

Not so. You still have to consider the focal length multiplier even on crop sensor lenses. Wether you shoot with a lense designed for full frame sensor or crop sensor, the effective focal length will still be 1.5x more when used on a crop sensor camera. A 50mm DX lens designed for a APS-C sensor camera will have the framing of a 75mm lens.

It's called a crop sensor because that is exactly what it does. It takes a central crop of the full frame sensor image. This gives a perceived telephoto extension. A 100 mm lens on your camera will provide the same image as a 160mm lens on a full frame camera.

If you tried it in another computer and it still didn't work, then you can try removing it from the enclosure and installing in a new enclosure. If that doesn't work then the only option I know of is to send it to a drive recovery service, very expensive. You should have more than one backup, get an extra external drive and also invest in a cloud backup service, cheap insurance.

The Fuji is perfectly capable of taking fine landscapes, and is easier to carry when hiking. The D800 will of course have a better IQ, but unless you are going to make very large prints it won't make much difference. The 500 mm lense for the D800 will come in handy for wild life you might encounter at a distance. I'm 72 years old, and personally I would go with the D800 for the extended telephoto and also the wider effective wide angle of the 16-35mm lens for landscapes. If you are going to be doing a lot of hiking, which isn't really necessary in those parks the Fuji might be better. But I would not personally be doing a lot of distance hiking so would take the D800. If you are touring in your own car, why not take both, if this is a bus tour then the Fuji might be the best option. Either one will provide you with excellent photos of your trip.

Modern Lithium-Ion battery chargers have very little residual drain on batteries when they are unplugged. However there is always a slight drain. Leaving for a few days would not be a problem, but months at a time will not be a good idea. Lithium batteries will discharge very slowly when not in use, even out of the charger.

You didn't say what your budget is. For about $1400 you can buy a 17 in. gaming laptop with a 250GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. It will have all the processing power you need for photos and even video. A 250GB SSD will hold your photo processing programs and a couple thousand RAW photo files. It will make working on your RAW files very fast. Then when done they can be transfered to the HDD for reliable long term storage. Then when you get home they can be transfered to whatever storage you have for long term. Foe a smaller budget a smaller laptop with a 512GB SSD will hold your processing programs and several thousand RAW images untill you return home. Editing is much easier on a larger screen as in a 17in. laptop.