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<blockquote data-quote="Mike D90" data-source="post: 217066" data-attributes="member: 17556">Another try today. Birds are finally showing up at my feeding stations so I was able to get comfortable and close.I tried a lot of different settings.&nbsp; I used all modes of the auto focus and did not like the center point mode at all.&nbsp; Every time I squeezed the shutter button, half way to focus then down to fire, the focus would move off the bird and went out of focus completely.&nbsp; I found I like auto area, dynamic is ok and 3D tracking worked ok too sometimes.&nbsp; 3D tracking did not work well on rapid shots though.I changed the sharpening and saturation.&nbsp; I used aperture priority and shutter priority. I set my ISO minimum to 800 ISO.So, I got some better images but still no where near what I want to achieve.Here are the best of the 108 images I shot.&nbsp; All are from large JPEG as I cannot figure out how to get my NEF files to my computer.&nbsp; I cannot see them on the drive anywhere.&nbsp; These images are cropped, levels and sharpening adjusted and unsharp mask applied.[ATTACH]58837[/ATTACH][ATTACH]58838[/ATTACH][ATTACH]58839[/ATTACH][ATTACH]58840[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mike D90, post: 217066, member: 17556"] Another try today. Birds are finally showing up at my feeding stations so I was able to get comfortable and close. I tried a lot of different settings. I used all modes of the auto focus and did not like the center point mode at all. Every time I squeezed the shutter button, half way to focus then down to fire, the focus would move off the bird and went out of focus completely. I found I like auto area, dynamic is ok and 3D tracking worked ok too sometimes. 3D tracking did not work well on rapid shots though. I changed the sharpening and saturation. I used aperture priority and shutter priority. I set my ISO minimum to 800 ISO. So, I got some better images but still no where near what I want to achieve. Here are the best of the 108 images I shot. All are from large JPEG as I cannot figure out how to get my NEF files to my computer. I cannot see them on the drive anywhere. These images are cropped, levels and sharpening adjusted and unsharp mask applied. [ATTACH=CONFIG]58837._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]58838._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]58839._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]58840._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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