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<blockquote data-quote="gustafson" data-source="post: 565037" data-attributes="member: 40735"><p>Apologies for not being clear. What I meant to say regarding the focus points was that I doublechecked to make sure that I had indeed pointed the center focus point at the bird's face in all the shots - just ruling out one potential source of error. Totally agree on the shutter speed being too low. I ran some tests this weekend and found this lens + TC combo does best at a shutter speed of 1/800 or faster for this distance.</p><p></p><p>Adding a couple of samples taken at faster shutter speeds. These were processed in post, but were sharper off the bat than the plover series taken at 1/250.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/JzWMcM" target="_blank"><img src="https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7699/27951116735_8323bfe5fe_k.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/JzWMcM" target="_blank">White-winged Dove</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/89411942@N04/" target="_blank">p.g.photo.graphy</a>, on Flickr</p><p></p><p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/JzWMm4" target="_blank"><img src="https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7271/27951117215_f779f00fda_b.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/JzWMm4" target="_blank">Blue Jay</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/89411942@N04/" target="_blank">p.g.photo.graphy</a>, on Flickr</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gustafson, post: 565037, member: 40735"] Apologies for not being clear. What I meant to say regarding the focus points was that I doublechecked to make sure that I had indeed pointed the center focus point at the bird's face in all the shots - just ruling out one potential source of error. Totally agree on the shutter speed being too low. I ran some tests this weekend and found this lens + TC combo does best at a shutter speed of 1/800 or faster for this distance. Adding a couple of samples taken at faster shutter speeds. These were processed in post, but were sharper off the bat than the plover series taken at 1/250. [url=https://flic.kr/p/JzWMcM][img]https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7699/27951116735_8323bfe5fe_k.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/JzWMcM]White-winged Dove[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/89411942@N04/]p.g.photo.graphy[/url], on Flickr [url=https://flic.kr/p/JzWMm4][img]https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7271/27951117215_f779f00fda_b.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/JzWMm4]Blue Jay[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/89411942@N04/]p.g.photo.graphy[/url], on Flickr [/QUOTE]
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