OK...this is what you'd call challenging! I wanted to try the night safari, for the occasional different animals and the atmosphere at night - but of course photography isn't easy at night from a moving truck and with moving animals. I was debating between a fast F1.8 lens but way too short focal length, or go with longer lens reach for wildlife but be stuck with F4.5 or higher max aperture...Those with full frame cameras and F2.8 300mm+ lenses would be in the best shape here - I decided to go with focal length and slow apertures and just crank the ISO up to 25,600 and 51,200...and accept the noise. It was fun - and the grainy shots were still fun to capture as you don't often get to shoot animals on a night safari. Though some shots look a bit daylight-ish, it's because I've got the ISO up so high - it was pretty dark, at the very tail end of dusk and beginning of blue hour:
Lots of hippos were out and lining the banks (ISO 51,200):
The cattle and kudu grazing in the slightly cooler and less oppressive Florida evening air (ISO 25,600):
This little grazer was pretty close - I actually could have used the 35mm F1.8 with him, had I brought it (ISO 25,600):
A bunch of happily grazing wildebeest and a few tommies mixed in (ISO 25,600):
We pulled up behind this giraffe who was looking off into the distance - the sky here was very dark, but the high ISO brought out the clouds (ISO 25,600):
In a few spots, they provide some artificial lighting - it's more distant to the animals, rather than right on them, so it is very faint and non-intrusive, but will help guests still be able to see the animals even when it's very dark. You can see some distant light catching on this elephant's back as he walked away with a dinner of grass (ISO 25,600):
Lots of hippos were out and lining the banks (ISO 51,200):

The cattle and kudu grazing in the slightly cooler and less oppressive Florida evening air (ISO 25,600):

This little grazer was pretty close - I actually could have used the 35mm F1.8 with him, had I brought it (ISO 25,600):

A bunch of happily grazing wildebeest and a few tommies mixed in (ISO 25,600):

We pulled up behind this giraffe who was looking off into the distance - the sky here was very dark, but the high ISO brought out the clouds (ISO 25,600):

In a few spots, they provide some artificial lighting - it's more distant to the animals, rather than right on them, so it is very faint and non-intrusive, but will help guests still be able to see the animals even when it's very dark. You can see some distant light catching on this elephant's back as he walked away with a dinner of grass (ISO 25,600):
