Canon 80D - Setup for Wildlife Photography 

what lenses have you bought i also got an 80 d about 6 months ago.

Sorry i can only manage to do it in English, Jaime Arturo :-)

Thanks Storm :-)

I appreciate the feedback :-)

Glad this was helpful its a great APS -C camera :-)

@@grantatkinson8108 thanks grant, love your stuff!

@@michaelmclean3423 if you have any specific questions not covered in the video feel free to ask, I will try my best to help, though I know nothing about flash photography etc :-)

Good information to add in, thanks for that :-)

Yeah.. 27 points will work and if you use 70-200 f2.8 ii +1.4x all 45 points works..

Glad it was useful Joel Spencer!

happy to read that it is still useful!

Thanks for the feedback!

Very much appreciate the feedback!

I do appreciate your message and glad the video is helpful!

Thanks!

i appreciate that, thank you very much!

Michael Didomenico it's a nice camera. Photo quality is 👌ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ALPEdF_yX94.html

Thanks for the feedback, and I enjoy my 80D too, Canons best 'crop-sensor' image quality, Donna Melsness!

Thanks Anthony, I am finding that the images from the 80D have lower noise, specially if I view them or use them at equal-sized outputs, to the 7D2. It is not a huge difference but it's there.... I would like to do more videos in the field, but at this stage the cost in logistics would be prohibitive. Will keep thinking about it.

Hi there BM, most of the settings are quite similar between the 80D and the 6D Mark 2, however I have done a dedicated 6D Mark 2 setup post on my website: www.grantatkinson.com/blog/canon-6d-mark-ii-setup-for-wildlife-photography

So far I have not handled the 77D yet, so cannot at this stage offer any opinion, though many of the main specifications look very similar.. :-)

Appreciate the feedback very much CN9 !

It's a nice and capable camera. Can check few pics including macro pics I took ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ALPEdF_yX94.html

Hi Kranthi, the 7Dmk2 is built tougher, has a bigger body that fits people with bigger hands better, has better viewfinder autofocus, deeper buffer, faster and more responsive. The 80D has slightly better image quality with a bit less noise and more dynamic range, is more versatile in how many ways you can use it with the toch screen, is quite a bit smaller and lighter...hope something there helps

Hi Phillip, glad the video was useful. I dont use polarizing filters at all for anything to do with wildlife as i find they usually cause any darker parts of my image to become too dark. If that happens to be part of my subject then I prefer to avoid using them. The polarizing filters also slow down autofocusing, so if I am trying to photograph marine mammals or marine birds, then i avoid using them. But, if you are taking landscapes and are looking for good rendering of the water, clouds etc, then the polarizer does a good job.

Thank you kindly for your timely reply..

Hi Shahid, the purpose of the set up video is to help get your camera set up rapidly without having to spend time reading the manual. If you have specific questions that are not covered in this video nor in the other videos I have on the 80D then feel free to post them. If I know the answer I will try share.

Hi Marc, it has the best sensor so far of any other Canon APS-C camera for such kind of shooting, short of getting a full frame body of course. I think it will be helpful to your image quality if you are able to get the exposures as close as possible to what you want, whilst taking the images of course..and any extra light sources that you can add always helps when shooting blacks in low light with any dslr ...

Grant Atkinson thank you Grant. I realize what I did which was giving me grainy video quality in my car interior. I had it set to 3X zoom I turned that off and it’s better now.

Hi Sir, the gimbal head is made by Gimpro, and its a fantastic piece of equipment for me. Its made of high quality material and very tough: www.gimprogear.com/ The tripod is a aluminium Slik 580DX Pro which is very sturdy but heavy for travel, but the gimbal head will attach to any tripod with a thread on top :-)

Really depends on what kind of subject matter you will be shooting, and if there are multiple types, which will be the one most important to you?

If you aren't sure what you want, grab a less expensive camera and learn for a few years. Then, when you want to spend big money you'll know what you use and how things work. I have had a rebel T3 for 5 years and I am finally upgrading. Often times lenses are a better expenditure and will have a larger impact on what you can do with your camera.

xindiian 80d definetly insane autofocus good quality u get good quality for your money

Hi Rajman, I have not used the 80D on that Sigma lens much so I wont be speaking from experience. Rough starting points for moving subjects might be: Ai Servo mode, Evaluative metering: Single Focus point selected manually: Ai Servo 1st Image Priority - Release: Ai Servo 2nd Image Priority - Middle . Autofocus Tracking Sensitivity - 0 unless it keeps dropping off subject then Minus 1: Accel/Decelerate - 0: AF Pt Auto Switching - 0: Lens Drive when AF Impossible - 0 - Continue Focus Search:. Those would be starting points, you are better off to try understand what those focus parameters are actually doing when making adjustments. All those focus adjustment parameters that i mentioned above are all similar in their effect on the 80D, to the ones in the 7D Mark 2, which I have explained part by part, in a 5 video series on the autofocus system. That will be relevant to the 80D ..

I have used the Sigma 150-600 Sport as well as both of the Tamron 150-600 models but not the Sigma Contemporary. Can be a bit tough for me to recommmend but I might tend toward the Tamron G2 though they are all quite capable The Sigma Sport is quite heavy and managing the zoom ring is not always the easiest for folk with smaller hands.

@@grantatkinson8108 Thank You so very much!!! Tamron it is!!!

Thanks for viewing. I have posted some images taken with the 80D here: www.grantatkinson.com/blog/canon-80d-setup-for-wildlife-photography

I would agree with that take on the 80D, it is not quite as good overall as an action camera as the 7D2 if all factors are considered, but it does bring something additional, both with regard to resolution, plus that flip screen versatility. And it can be a tiny bit better than the 7D Mk 2 in very low light.

Thanks, Grant Great channel you have and dream job. Not much call for it in Scotland thou! :)

It sounds like the shutter speed may need to be faster (a higher number) or else the aperture made smaller ( a higher number for the f-stop) if you are using M mode and Auto iso and the ambient light was very bright?

I seriously hope you didn't upgrade to 90D from 80D. My question would be why?

@@MultiDeivas Done! Love it. Better camera to an icon, but better.

@@mobelue What do you shoot usually?

MultiDeivas wildlife.

Agree with you there Jay, the 80D has grown the series capability and customization options deeply! Its a powerful APS-C camera :-)

Hi Scott, the 100-400ii will work superbly with both the 80D and the 5dmk2. If you put on a 1.4x extender on the lens though, then the viewfinder autofocus will still work with the 80D but not the 5dmk2.

Thanks for that Grant i will be using the extender on the 80D it's just to get closer to the 600mm range i got on the tamron lens i will be replacing and hope to see a noticeable improvement with it.

Hi Scott, these things are all a bit subjective but I am not sure if the Canon EF 100-400 IS ii WITH a 1.4x iii Extender will be much of an improvement on a Tamron 150-600mm lens...for sure the bare lens works better (but only up to 400mm ). Of course each shooter has their own needs or preferences, I can only share what is relevant to my own way of using these things. :-)

Thanks Grant as a novice all the help is much appreciated.

Hi Scoth, I got Tamron 150-600 G2 and found tamron teleconverter is working only on live view mode but is tricky to get it done. On the Canon 400mm Prime lens my Tamron teleconverters with Canon 80D never get working, they freeze the camera. I don't know how performs with the Canon extender. But in the wildlife photography the focal length is never enough. Keep the Tamron. 600mm F6.3 is much better than 600mm F8. Also with 1.4 extender you can go to 840mm, F9 for not moving objects without loosing the image quality. With the 1.6 camera crop factor you are going to - 1344mm optical zoom.