One of Australia's best-known wildlife photographers has had most of his photographic equipment stolen from a car.

Steve Parish was staying with his nephew at suburban Norwood in Adelaide and found his car windows smashed when he woke this morning.

About $200,000 of equipment was gone and Mr Parish admitted it was uninsured.

"They've stolen my prized cameras. Some of the lenses are special lenses that I've had for a long time, they're not actually manufactured any more," he said.

"They don't really have any market value but they have a lot of special micro-zoom lenses for photographing animals."

The award-winning photographer said his publishing business went into liquidation after it was affected by the Brisbane floods.

He said the robbery now came as another cruel blow to his fortunes.

"I went into meltdown because I've actually been through a fair bit of stress. My company got flooded so this was the first project after getting back on my feet," he said.