Success Again Today with Swallows in Flight

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.

You never put your eye on the sights. The reflex sight is kept almost as close or far you want but it is at "arm length".

Just like here

You lose the third support with the camera, meaning you should use a monopod, tripod or get some kind a stock to give a additional support.

Example:

Now you would attach the reflex sight on that and then aim like you would with a rifle.

The reflex sight does not communicate by any means with the camera. It doesn't know camera settings or alter those.

All what it does is to offer you a parallel viewpoint that allows you to see peripheral so you avoid the "tunnel vision" that cameras suffers and causes you to estimate what is happening outside of the field of view you are seeing and you have less reaction times to sudden situations.

The difference looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuZ2N35Vyig

Because you don't have the "tunnel vision" you see the "whole picture" and you can far more easily point the camera at the direction where the action is _going_ to happen.

You simply set the reflex sight to go parallel point with camera (like set camera on tripod and use camera center focus point to point camera something small at 50m distance and then set the sight to point same target) and it doesn't matter where your eye is behind the reflex sight (without parallax error) the reflected sight points where the camera center focus point is pointing.

So when you are taking photographs or video, you need to control your camera (focal length, shutter speed, frame rate, autofocus S-AF/C-AF) and then just point the sight on target and release the shutter.