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<blockquote data-quote="Fortkentdad" data-source="post: 545043" data-attributes="member: 24285">Another day and another backyard birding walk about the neighbourhood, working on my BBF technique.&nbsp; Found it useful if there was a bird in the bush (which is not worth as much as a bird in hand but how often do you get a bird in hand?).&nbsp; In the bush the focus would jump from one branch to another.&nbsp; With BBF I get the spot and shoot and if I move a bit and a branch gets in the way the focus does not change.&nbsp; Of course if the bird moves too much you need to refocus.&nbsp; And I think I should move up from F5.6 (or would that be down) to F6 or even F8 to give me a little more depth of field especially if the subject is not that far away (and when shooting birds that means maybe 20 feet or so).&nbsp; These were shot with a Nikon 200-500 on a D610.Did find that even if I press once and release and have the affect of a single focus point - in Nikons View NX it reports AF-C focus and does not show the focus point?&nbsp; &nbsp; Went there with a the ones that did not focus well to see where I had indeed focused the camera - but alas it was not going to show me.&nbsp; It was still a bit of hit and miss.&nbsp; One set of shots I took of a different bird all were a little off focus - but another set were mostly bang on.&nbsp; Definitely the way to go, but a skill to be developed.&nbsp; [ATTACH]204792[/ATTACH][ATTACH]204793[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fortkentdad, post: 545043, member: 24285"] Another day and another backyard birding walk about the neighbourhood, working on my BBF technique. Found it useful if there was a bird in the bush (which is not worth as much as a bird in hand but how often do you get a bird in hand?). In the bush the focus would jump from one branch to another. With BBF I get the spot and shoot and if I move a bit and a branch gets in the way the focus does not change. Of course if the bird moves too much you need to refocus. And I think I should move up from F5.6 (or would that be down) to F6 or even F8 to give me a little more depth of field especially if the subject is not that far away (and when shooting birds that means maybe 20 feet or so). These were shot with a Nikon 200-500 on a D610. Did find that even if I press once and release and have the affect of a single focus point - in Nikons View NX it reports AF-C focus and does not show the focus point? Went there with a the ones that did not focus well to see where I had indeed focused the camera - but alas it was not going to show me. It was still a bit of hit and miss. One set of shots I took of a different bird all were a little off focus - but another set were mostly bang on. Definitely the way to go, but a skill to be developed. [ATTACH=CONFIG]204792._xfImport[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]204793._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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