Sony A6300 Review From The Field - A Great Bear Camera

Sony A6300 and the Sony 70-400mm lens
A few months ago, I was in Patagonia instructing back-to-back workshops. Art Wolfe and Ignacio Palacios were also there to help teach the workshops. One evening, over a few drinks, Art was telling me about shooting bears in Alaska. He described photographing giant bears as they fished for salmon and ate berries in Katmai National Park. He said you could get within 10 feet of them, the photographs would surely be incredible. He explained we’d have to fly in on a float plane and walk about five miles a day, hiking through rivers. It sounded like another great adventure, sign me up! So he did.

 
Like many of you, in preparing for a trip of this magnitude, I kept rethinking what I should bring and what I should leave behind. I have a lot of gear, mind you, and I had just finished shooting Iceland and the Palouse with the Fuji X-Pro 2. It was a great camera for landscapes, but this wasn’t going to be a landscape shoot. Art mentioned that he was br...