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Butterflies in Flight part 2

Started Feb 13, 2016 | Photos thread
vass
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Re: Butterflies in Flight part 2
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haslo wrote:

Impressive!

What's the best way to catch these in flight? Are you following them around with C-AF? Do you prefocus and burst?

CAF + tr for the most of them seems to work good. A little better than CAF from experience so far. Need to experiment more. I only started shooting them so I'm yet to decide exactly what is best.
Pre-focus is very important because you don't want lense hunt. As soon as your locked you must fire a burst, any delay and they are out of focus a lot of the time. Maybe CAF+tr behaves more eratic but I think they way these insects fly it needs to jump more often.

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