I have a Fujifilm camera and decent lens that can do 600mm FF equiv is not cheap. I’m wondering what is the best option for bird photography at that range? There are some tiny 1/2.3 compact cameras like the Sony hx99 that doesn’t seem too good. There also seem to be an option of picking up a m43 camera with a 300mm (600mm equivalent) lens. What is everyone’s favorite options?
Right, as far as I’m aware, only like a couple of m43 bodies (Olympus only, I think?) have PDAF, although I haven’t really kept up with m43 releases the last few years. It’s been long-requested, but Panasonic, at least, seemed to be unwilling to do it, claiming the potential for image artifacts caused by the PDAF pixels. That’s a real possibility, but they finally relented on their latest L-mount body (S5x or something?) after the previous L-mount bodies had that the auto-focus in particular being widely criticized. Perhaps the replacements to the G9 or to the GH6 will have PDAF.