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Success Again Today with Swallows in Flight

Started Sep 27, 2015 | Discussions thread
vass
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Re: Success Again Today with Swallows in Flight
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Yes I use the EE-1 most the time but not always.

Basically I keep both eyes open just as I do if I use the EVF. Practice in following and keeping ur sight or focus points (if using EVF) is a key factor and you must be able to follow them almost spot on when trying to lock on if you want to increase your chances. 
I hold the camera about 4 inches from my eye. Yes missing a lot too, no matter what camera one uses that will always be the case with swallows.

9 box focus, H mode and CAF. Pretty important to pre-focus too at the distance u expect to try lock on. Most the time the camera doesn't get a focus lock because of the short distance from lens to bird, eratic movements and speed of the bird but there are points where they slow down or fly parallel etc and this is where u need to take advantage of locking focus.
When the bird is flying directly at you and at speed and erratically u just close your eyes and hope for the best

cheers

Kazooless wrote:

Very impressive!

Is this what you were using?: http://www.amazon.com/Olympus-V329200BU000-Dot-Sight-EE-1/dp/B00STR9K1G/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1443626759&sr=1-1&keywords=olympus+ee-1

Can you tell us how specifically you use it? Do you hold your eye up to it like you would the view finder? Or hold it at arms length? Inquiring minds. It sounds like you still miss a bunch of shots, right? So are you using autofocus? I imagine you need really really fast autofocus too?

This definitely looks like something I should add to my list.

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