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Why isn’t AF picking up these birds?

Started 10 months ago | Questions thread
JustUs7 Senior Member • Posts: 4,327
Re: I wondered if that might be the case
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The chair is not in focus.  The pole holding the bird feeder is.  As is the bird bath.   I’d sit right where you were and use the 100-400 on the feeders, not the fence.  Set up your animal eye af and make those birds as big as you can in frame.  That lens has a very short minimum focus distance allowing you to use 400mm from three feet away.

If full AF isn’t working for you, try spot or single point and use touch and drag to put the square right on your subject.

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