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[lucien]

my guess is it's a damn good af system/sensor. Deadly accurate or there was a slight breeze just before focus acquisition

 

[lucien]

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[AlwaysOnAuto]

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[lucien]

is this find the bird puzzle, jk

 

[AlwaysOnAuto]

The hummers can be hard to spot, that's for sure.

 

[lucien]

are you saying, you didn't know it was there until you looked on a big screen. Well they have to be close to the feeder Ha ha

 

[will focus]

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Kildeer in flight (lucky shot)

 

[Stu]

Lets just say they weren't chatting about the weather.

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[Stu]

And still more cormorants!

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[will focus]

Lets just say they weren't chatting about the weather.

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I wonder what they were cormoRANTING about.

 

[John King]

I'm on auto iso, would f11 bring me to 800 automatically? Thanks for the tip. I'm worried about iso that's why I keep the Fstop's medium. I lose sharpness that way I guess. Still a student, and some lens don't show a diff between (8-11). I'll try that though

Switch off auto ISO, shoot aperture priority mode, watch out for the SS! Just while you are learning more. This minimizes variables which are irrelevant to learning, and highly relevant to outcomes.

For an APSC sensor, f/11 will give similar DoF to f/8 on mFTs and f/16 on 135 format.

Most APSC format lenses will perform best between f/8 and f/16.

There are differences in the lenses between formats! Many APSC and FF lenses (most/all?) are not as sharp in zone 2/3/corners as most similar mFTs lenses are, specially not wide open. There are exceptions! The FTs 18-180 and mFTs 12-200 are both very ordinary, for examples.

The moral of this, is get to know how your cameras and lenses. Best done by experimenting.

 

[John King]

Something puzzles me: why is the bird visible behind the (out-of-focus) thin branch running in front of it as though the branch were translucent? Can anyone illuminate me, please?

Diffraction around the OoF branch, Rashid ...

 

[Irene McC]

Cape Sugarbird cropped to 67% (which unfortunately cuts off its beautiful long tail)

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[will focus]

Cape Sugarbird cropped to 67% (which unfortunately cuts off its beautiful long tail)

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Try a portrait crop in 4/3 instead of landscape to include the tail (?)

 

[gecko]

Diffraction around the OoF branch, Rashid ...

Many thanks, John.

 

[Stu]

Another couple of the Eastern Spinebill

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[MiguelATF]

A shy GBH (Great Blue Heron) staying out of sight amidst the rocky tide pools at Cape Blanco, on the Oregon Coast.

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[MiguelATF]

This white-crowned Sparrow likes the fir trees near the Oregon coast.

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[Rose McGillicuddy]

White swans at Henley Lake Masterton.

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[lucien]

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