Retief said:
Now I'd be REALLY impressed if you had a series of the bee flying with good focus-tracking :lol: :lol: :lol:
In my search for "The Truth" in should I buy one, the biggest nit I am hearing is the issue of focus tracking with smaller subjects.
What you show here is pretty impressive, have you tried to print a crop that is this deep? I'd be interested to hear your impression of this as an 8x10 for example.
Thanks, giving me yet MORE food for thought......hmmm....
Hey Bill (or Jim or whatever your name is :lol: ) -
I'll make an 8x10 and report back. My guess is that it will look pretty good from 3-4 feet but not so good up real close.
I've had good success tracking large birds even at a good distance.
I've had lousy success trying to get sharp images of small birds (terns) at long distance with a 200-400VR plus TC-17, but I don't think that's a fair test. Im my case operator error would overwhelm any camera problems. I can tell you that the camera/lens combo seemed to be tracking OK, but I couldn't track myself well enough to keep the bird in the focus spot. At this stage in my learning process that just isn't possible, so I wouldn't hold it against the camera.
Finally, with even a fairly large bird that is tracking fine against a background of sky or water and then flies in front of a highly textured background like trees or weeds, focus tends to snap to the background. However when this happened I wasn't using single spot focusing, but rather the second setting up where focus can shift to any of the five central spots. Sorry, but Nikon nomenclature on this is beyond me. I'm not sure this would have happened using single spot focus as long as I kept the spot on the bird.
Stay tuned for print feedback -
Gordon