Your best best for a portable/everyday solution is the Nikon p900 super zoom type cameras, they are cheap and compact enough and have enough zoom for reasonable ID purposes, the IQ is ‘bad’ though for artistic/high quality photos. Artistic setups for long range photography weigh a lot, cost a lot and are bulky as hell, sports/wildlife photography setups basically.
Yes it is very hard to keep small distant objects in frame and more importantly achieve focus, it takes practice ... Read even more
