Here is the shot from the camera; the full sensor; cropped but only a minor one. He was not easy to keep in the viewfinder at close range and 500mm; he was zipping all over the place. AF was about to strangle me; had to use manual focus to get the focal plan at least on him for AF to take over; then a fraction of a second do it all over again. Good times. :)
The first encounter lasted a minute or two then he flew off... I thought I was defeated and made peace. About five minutes later he came back to the area and i gave it another go. out of roughly 30 photos, 3 or 4 were in focus; actually not bad really for time vested.
Using Single Focus activation and shutter can only fire when there is focus; saves on a lot of "missed out of focus" shots. Continuous focus could have worked as well but giving the fast movement and erratic movement, continuous would have missed a lot; but could have worked. I'm just not fast enough to keep focus (with continuous) on the bee.
Very nice! How much did you have to crop?
Thanks!
Here is the shot from the camera; the full sensor; cropped but only a minor one. He was not easy to keep in the viewfinder at close range and 500mm; he was zipping all over the place. AF was about to strangle me; had to use manual focus to get the focal plan at least on him for AF to take over; then a fraction of a second do it all over again. Good times. :)
That is a really cool photo...
Thank you Marcus
I have to say that I am impressed with the focus, the near eye is pin sharp - must have taken a lot of trial & error, correct?
The first encounter lasted a minute or two then he flew off... I thought I was defeated and made peace. About five minutes later he came back to the area and i gave it another go. out of roughly 30 photos, 3 or 4 were in focus; actually not bad really for time vested.
Using Single Focus activation and shutter can only fire when there is focus; saves on a lot of "missed out of focus" shots. Continuous focus could have worked as well but giving the fast movement and erratic movement, continuous would have missed a lot; but could have worked. I'm just not fast enough to keep focus (with continuous) on the bee.