@jonmacks - I did some testing with my iPhone 15 Pro Max for telephoto pictures. Now, everyone has their own standards, but I was not satisfied with the picture quality when I zoomed out fairly far. Once you get fairly far into the digital zoom the image degrades quite a bit. It's not bad if you only go maybe 2x into the digital zoom. If you add that to the 5x optical zoom, it gives you 10x, but I believe that Apple starts their specifications from fairly wide angle, and not normal (the equivalent of 50mm in a full frame camera). I didn't feel that 10x gave me what I wanted in telephoto pictures.
If I take my Canon with its 70-300 lens for the long distance shots, how much memory do you think I will need if I use my iPhone for the rest of my photos? Would one 128 GB card be enough. Are two batteries enough, you think? My batteries seem to hold a charge ok, but they are about 12 years old.
I think I used 128 or 256 cards for the last time I used my Fujifilm camera. Didn't come close to filling them up. You want two batteries with you when you're using the camera - one in the camera and one in your pocket. Make sure you charge them every night. I'm a belt and suspenders kind of guy so I always bring extras (of just about everything).
@jonmacks : Even if you think you can fit all photos on one card consider taking multiple versions. Cards are cheap and cards fail. So my strategy is to rotate out a card every 2-3 days so that in the worst case scenario I only lose 2-3 days of the trip and not the entire tour if I used only one card and it went south on me. A 128 GB card should hold 3000+ shots at 40MB per shot. (Your camera file may be larger or smaller). You will shoot LOTS!! So have lots of storage. On my last two Africa trips I took over 10,000 shots but I do shoot at 10 frames per sec typically. Carried 4 off 512GB cards and rotated them every 2-3 days as I suggested. Some cameras have two card slots. You may consider using one as a back up to mitigate the failure scenario.
I didn't mention what rwilso15 said, but my Fujifilm camera has two storage slots and I use both of them. I put RAW on one and JPEG on the other. If your camera has two storage slots, it's a good way to provide some backup.
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I am jealous. If I were to convince my wife to go, which African adventure should we take? I would like to see animals and the open plains of Africa.
@jonmacks - I did some testing with my iPhone 15 Pro Max for telephoto pictures. Now, everyone has their own standards, but I was not satisfied with the picture quality when I zoomed out fairly far. Once you get fairly far into the digital zoom the image degrades quite a bit. It's not bad if you only go maybe 2x into the digital zoom. If you add that to the 5x optical zoom, it gives you 10x, but I believe that Apple starts their specifications from fairly wide angle, and not normal (the equivalent of 50mm in a full frame camera). I didn't feel that 10x gave me what I wanted in telephoto pictures.
If I take my Canon with its 70-300 lens for the long distance shots, how much memory do you think I will need if I use my iPhone for the rest of my photos? Would one 128 GB card be enough. Are two batteries enough, you think? My batteries seem to hold a charge ok, but they are about 12 years old.
I think I used 128 or 256 cards for the last time I used my Fujifilm camera. Didn't come close to filling them up. You want two batteries with you when you're using the camera - one in the camera and one in your pocket. Make sure you charge them every night. I'm a belt and suspenders kind of guy so I always bring extras (of just about everything).
@jonmacks : Even if you think you can fit all photos on one card consider taking multiple versions. Cards are cheap and cards fail. So my strategy is to rotate out a card every 2-3 days so that in the worst case scenario I only lose 2-3 days of the trip and not the entire tour if I used only one card and it went south on me. A 128 GB card should hold 3000+ shots at 40MB per shot. (Your camera file may be larger or smaller). You will shoot LOTS!! So have lots of storage. On my last two Africa trips I took over 10,000 shots but I do shoot at 10 frames per sec typically. Carried 4 off 512GB cards and rotated them every 2-3 days as I suggested. Some cameras have two card slots. You may consider using one as a back up to mitigate the failure scenario.
I didn't mention what rwilso15 said, but my Fujifilm camera has two storage slots and I use both of them. I put RAW on one and JPEG on the other. If your camera has two storage slots, it's a good way to provide some backup.