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Why isn’t AF picking up these birds?

Started 10 months ago | Questions thread
OP Texchappy Contributing Member • Posts: 598
Re: Auto mode

Andy01 wrote:

If it was windy and the feeder (and bird) were moving around, then you probably needed at least 1/1000th to freeze the bird (assuming it was correctly focused on the bird's head).

Colin

Going to try to go sit out this evening and give it a try. They didn’t cooperate this morning. There isn’t a lot of times in west Texas that there isn’t wind. One of the set that morning had the birds tail oof so that should have given me a clue. Was focused (no pun intended) on the AF settings/operation that I wasn’t looking at the other aspects of the shot. Now that I’m figuring out more settings and functions I’m looking more at those things.  Having shot Fuji for the last decade, I’ve had to pay much more attention to those things on the dials.

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