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Settings for birds in flight, tips please

Started Feb 11, 2012 | Discussions thread
WilbaW
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Re: Settings for birds in flight, tips please

guitarjeff wrote:

Would it be adbisable to just leave my camera in center point AF and AI servo all the time?

Definitely AI Servo, but the AF point thing depends on whether you can keep it on your subject. That's easy with big things on repeated predictable trajectories (e.g. car on a racetrack), but not so much with BIFs. You might do better with all AF points, but you have to start AFing with the centre point on the subject, so that the system knows what to track.

Aim for a shutter speed up around 1/2000.

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