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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 164572" data-attributes="member: 13090">Re: D7000 settingsHard to say why you're getting out of focus shots but some good suggestions might be to make sure your shutter speed is, roughly, twice your focal length. For example if I'm shooting with focal length of 100mm I want my shutter speed to stay at, or above, 1/200. This calculation takes into account the 1.5x crop factor of the DX format. You don't say if these birds you're shooting are in flight or not, but if they are you might want to use Auto Focus - Continuous if you're not already.Using Aperture Priorty for this type of shooting should be fine, generally speaking, but I'd have the minimum ISO and minimum shutter speed settings adjusted to match the focal lengths I'm shooting at. Then too you'll want to maintain a certain depth of field... I'd probably want to be shooting at f/8 or so but that's a bit of a guess.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 164572, member: 13090"] [b]Re: D7000 settings[/b] Hard to say why you're getting out of focus shots but some good suggestions might be to make sure your shutter speed is, roughly, twice your focal length. For example if I'm shooting with focal length of 100mm I want my shutter speed to stay at, or above, 1/200. This calculation takes into account the 1.5x crop factor of the DX format. You don't say if these birds you're shooting are in flight or not, but if they are you might want to use Auto Focus - Continuous if you're not already. Using Aperture Priorty for this type of shooting should be fine, generally speaking, but I'd have the minimum ISO and minimum shutter speed settings adjusted to match the focal lengths I'm shooting at. Then too you'll want to maintain a certain depth of field... I'd probably want to be shooting at f/8 or so but that's a bit of a guess. [/QUOTE]

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