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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mikew_RIP" data-source="post: 441400" data-attributes="member: 14174">Spray and prey is often used as a derogatory phrase by photographers that post very little in the way of the difficult wildlife and sport pictures with fast moving subjects,the phrase is actually a load of crap,spray and prey sounds like you just point your camera and press the shutter while on continues high,well i will let you into a secret its not,its another tool in the armory that has a place.The wing beat of a small or even largish fast flying can hardly be detected by the human eye and to conclude you can judge the exact moment to press the shutter is a sign of lack of knowledge on the subject,even if you could the shutter lag as small as it is is would cause you to miss the moment you want.We do have at least one member that takes one picture at the moment he wants and gets some unbelievable results but to be fair they are mainly static subjects.Should we put high frame rate in with hand held meters and manual focus lenses and conclude all modern technology is cheating in some way,i dont think so.Its not a slow frame rate or the small buffer on the d7100 that causes me problems its the lack of F8 focus points,if i use more than center point on the D7100 for BIF i find the camera gets confused trying to focus a 600mm F6.3 lens quickly with focus points that as far as i can tell are F5.6.Nikon most likley know this and are saying quietly you should use one of our fast primes,what a joke if the only people that bought nikon cameras where the people that could afford the expensive Nikon lenses then Nikon wouldn't be around long.</blockquote>

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