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Help! Humming Bird Hell.......

Started Jan 13, 2015 | Photos thread
tedolf
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Re: Help! Humming Bird Hell.......

Bobby J wrote:

At 1/250 shutter speed you shouldn't be getting "shutter shock". They simply look out of focus to me. The 1st one is the sharpest and it's really rather soft. I think I'd go back to AF, and select the small setting for the focus point. Looks as if you are failry close, so DOF is fairly shallow

You may be right.

I was at about 10 ft., f/5.2 with 111mm focal length so the DOF was only maybe 4"-enough to get the whole bird in but just.  I focused on the "flower" closest to the bird and just assumed that he was at the same distance.  But that should have worked, right?

Anyway, even the "flower" on the feeder is soft.

The whole thing is soft.

Something is wrong.

and I think the AF on the camera will hit it faster and more accurately than you can manually...especially hand held.

Maybe you are right.

Maybe I blew the focus on the flower!

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