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| Posted: Sun Apr 29th, 2018 09:36 |
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Graham Whistler
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A serious challenge for even a highly skilled photographer. Birds are fast, erratic, often very small and most fly! Long top quality lenses with limited depth of field will a lot of the time not fill the frame. Many of the latest Nikon DSLR have very high def sensors so advantge to enlarge final image. First class high ISO performance also aids fast shutter speeds and sharp pictures of moving subjects in often poor light. Nikon Cameras like D500 and D850 fit the bill and their ability to track and lock focus quickly is vital to good results.Low noise at high ISO also great help. Yesterday with another photographer friend we were at a first class workshop on bird photography at Blashford Lakes Reserve in Hampshire. Lots to learn and the rain held off so we had a some time in the hides to take a few pictures, this Greenfinch kindly posed for me. Nikon D850 with 80-400mm AF-S lens with x1.4: 370mm. 2000 ISO 1/500 sec f9. Attachment: Greenfinch0663.jpg (Downloaded 255 times)
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29th, 2018 12:44 |
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jk
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Beautiful shot Graham. Perfect composition and sharpness.
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| Posted: Tue May 1st, 2018 05:14 |
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Graham Whistler
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You need to look at this! This is the whole image as shot with the D850 and first image is the blow up that produced a high quality A3+ print. The 80-400mm lens was not zoomed up to the full 400mm as I had to react very quickly when the Greenfinch landed for only a few seconds on an interesting dead tree. Attachment: Greenfinch all 663.jpg (Downloaded 242 times)
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| Posted: Thu May 3rd, 2018 09:25 |
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Graham Whistler
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This is test today with garden birds D850 with the big Nikon 500mm AF-S F4 lens similar large blow up as above pix: Tracking focus AF-S Single point (bird running) ISO 1000 1/1600 sec f6.3 hand held. Hope to be meeting Eric for birding day at Frampton Marsh on trhe Wash in 10 days time. Will be in Suffolk for next week doing more bird photography. So getting my eye in today with our garden birds. Attachment: Starling_DSC0729.jpg (Downloaded 241 times)
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| Posted: Thu May 3rd, 2018 11:12 |
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Eric
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Graham Whistler wrote:This is test today with garden birds D850 with the big Nikon 500mm AF-S F4 lens similar large blow up as above pix: Tracking focus AF-S Single point (bird running) ISO 1000 1/1600 sec f6.3 hand held. What's Tracking Focus? I'm only on page 200 of the the D500 manual so you don't have to practise too hard. 
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| Posted: Thu May 3rd, 2018 11:28 |
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Eric
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I've been reading Steve Perry's book on Nikon focusing system and his recommendations for camera settings. He doesn't use AF-S but sets it to AF-C all the time and uses the back AF-ON button for AF. With this method of focusing he simply takes his thumb off the back button once focus is acquired to effectively give AF-S. I was planning on changing the habits of a lifetime and configuring the camera in his manner next week. You can guarantee I will be in a b@ggers muddle !!
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| Posted: Thu May 3rd, 2018 11:59 |
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Graham Whistler
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Sorry my error I meant AF-C contious but single focus point. Would have been better to use 5 or 9 focus points for moving bird but had no time to change as bird had been feeding in static position then turned and ran. IE no time to change settings to multi focus points. For action button No 15 on back of D500 & D500 "Focus" is good and 2nd button No 14 "Sub-selector" can be set to the multi focus points of your choice.
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| Posted: Thu May 3rd, 2018 16:11 |
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Eric
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Graham Whistler wrote:Sorry my error I meant AF-C contious but single focus point. Would have been better to use 5 or 9 focus points for moving bird but had no time to change as bird had been feeding in static position then turned and ran. IE no time to change settings to multi focus points. Problem with using 14 for another 'dynamic' function when 15 is set to focus, is that you have to take your thumb off the AF-ON button ...so you lose focus tracking. I've set Fn1 to give 25 multipoint AND lock on....to make it easier....I think!! It's a shame all these button assignments don't click on and off...some do, but others you have to use a spare digit to hold it on. This means 3 of your right hand digits are not gripping the camera!
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| Posted: Sat May 5th, 2018 08:40 |
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Iain
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I've got the D500 set for single point on the back button, I use this 90% of the time and the multi secelctor (nipple) set too group focus for birds in flight.
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| Posted: Sat May 5th, 2018 08:43 |
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Iain
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One from this week D500 + sigma 150-600 Attachment: D50_4939.gif (Downloaded 235 times)
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