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<blockquote data-quote="Whiskeyman" data-source="post: 737732" data-attributes="member: 13556"><p>That's sage advice, Woody. I had tried Group AF for birding, at someone's suggestion, but wasn't entirely happy with the results. So I read a detailed description of the mode and found that Group AF will try to pick the part of the item within the focus area that is closest to the camera. I ended up with a lot of wingtips and branches in focus. I'm going to read a lot more about Nikon's AF modes; it's probably the link in the system that I have the lowest ratio of "understand the way it works" to "how important it is to taking a photograph". Does that make sense?</p><p></p><p>Anyhow, I thought that I could be steady enough, I gave up caffeine for a over a day before the shoot, to use single-point AF mode. I'm looking at my photo sequences and I'm finding that I tracked the subject fairly well in most cases, but if my initial focus wasn't right where it needed to be, my focus never recovered and there were too many distractions for the AF system. And fairly well just doesn't cut it, either!</p><p></p><p>My big lesson here is that Group or Dynamic AF was the mode to use, and that I needed to "get on the subject" much earlier than I was.</p><p></p><p>WM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whiskeyman, post: 737732, member: 13556"] That's sage advice, Woody. I had tried Group AF for birding, at someone's suggestion, but wasn't entirely happy with the results. So I read a detailed description of the mode and found that Group AF will try to pick the part of the item within the focus area that is closest to the camera. I ended up with a lot of wingtips and branches in focus. I'm going to read a lot more about Nikon's AF modes; it's probably the link in the system that I have the lowest ratio of "understand the way it works" to "how important it is to taking a photograph". Does that make sense? Anyhow, I thought that I could be steady enough, I gave up caffeine for a over a day before the shoot, to use single-point AF mode. I'm looking at my photo sequences and I'm finding that I tracked the subject fairly well in most cases, but if my initial focus wasn't right where it needed to be, my focus never recovered and there were too many distractions for the AF system. And fairly well just doesn't cut it, either! My big lesson here is that Group or Dynamic AF was the mode to use, and that I needed to "get on the subject" much earlier than I was. WM [/QUOTE]
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