Several years ago, I was out shooting some flying owls with my trusty D70 and 70-300 Screw drive lens. On my first day, the number of keepers were around 25%. In otherwords, pretty poor.
On my way home that day, I bumped in to a Canon user who had at that time, a top of the line Canon camera (don't remember which but it was the 1D something or other) and stopped to talk to him a bit. I told him about the low keeper rate and he mentioned that the higher end cameras have more processing power and were thus able to have better autofocus performance.
He suggested that I set white balance to a fixed value and not "auto". He also suggested that I set the camera in manual exposure mode. This would be Ok since I was mainly exposing on the bird and once I determined the correct exposure it shouldn't vary as much.
The next day, I went out and did what he suggested. By the end of the day my keeper rate jumped to over 75%.
So my question to everyone is have they tried this and do they notice a difference? (I have just started BIF with my D300)
On my way home that day, I bumped in to a Canon user who had at that time, a top of the line Canon camera (don't remember which but it was the 1D something or other) and stopped to talk to him a bit. I told him about the low keeper rate and he mentioned that the higher end cameras have more processing power and were thus able to have better autofocus performance.
He suggested that I set white balance to a fixed value and not "auto". He also suggested that I set the camera in manual exposure mode. This would be Ok since I was mainly exposing on the bird and once I determined the correct exposure it shouldn't vary as much.
The next day, I went out and did what he suggested. By the end of the day my keeper rate jumped to over 75%.
So my question to everyone is have they tried this and do they notice a difference? (I have just started BIF with my D300)