An excellent guest post by Des Ong (website | Facebook | Instagram) on wildlife photography from Coolpix 4200 to D3s and every camera in between:
Hi, I’m Des Ong and I’m a full-time wildlife photographer based in the UK. I’ll come clean – I’ve not always been a Nikon photographer. The first three cameras I owned were in fact from the ‘lighter side’. The first being an old manual SLR camera my college tutor insisted we use.
Over the last decade, I’ve had the opportunity to use a number of Nikon cameras and I thought it would be interesting to share some of my experiences with you, and what I think of them.
Nikon Coolpix 4200
When digital cameras became more readily available, I traded what I had at the time for my first very first Nikon – a compact Coolpix 4200. This 4MP camera was a real game changer. Free from the constraints of film development costs and seduced by the newfound instant gratification of the digital medium, this was my most prolific period. Nothing escaped me. It was used to capture anything and everything from my newborn daughter to bugs and aquatic creatures. The image files were not clean and the video pretty shocking, but the contents were important to me, and I can capture images anytime, anywhere, and share my experiences easily. My wife still uses one, although this was bought used a few years ago after the original was damaged beyond repair.
The images below were made some years ago with my trusty Coolpix 4200:
