Tiffany and I went to the Atlanta Zoo before my Iraq deployment in 2008. The trip offered me my first chance to really work with my Nikon 80-200mm f2.8 lens. It takes great photos but still can't quite match the zoom capabilities of the "super zoom" advanced point & shoot cameras (like the Canon S5 Tiffany uses). But since the DSLR has a larger sensor, you can crop later and still have a nice photo.