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R7 First Shots with RF 100-500, close-up with butterflies

Started 9 months ago | User reviews thread
drsnoopy Senior Member • Posts: 1,216
Re: R7 First Shots with RF 100-500, close-up with butterflies

JayLT4 wrote:

drsnoopy wrote:

@JayLT4 these are great images, and a useful review. May I ask how you set up your shots? I’ve used focus bracketing on my R5 for inanimate objects with my EF100L macro so have a basic idea of how to do it. I do have the 100-500, and an R7 is on order. It requires you to start with the nearest point, and the images are then each a little further away. So what is your initial focus point on a butterfly? Or do you pull back a fraction before shooting? And what size increment do you set for the bracketing? Do you need all 20 images or are many (further away) not needed? It would really help to have some recommendations from you - thanks!

For the focus bracketing I use One Shot AF, compose and lock focus (usually on the eye of the butterfly) then pull back slightly before pressing the shutter and doing my best to hold as still as possible.

I don't always use all 20 shots, usually varies on the low end to around 8 up to all 20 of them. When I'm sorting through them I look at the shots and determine which ones start an finish in places I want. With stacking you need to be careful not to get thing too out of focus, or focus through things as it can be a pain to fix it all after merging the shots

For the increments, I leave it at the default which I think is 4 (but I'd have to check). On the R7 all I did for these shots was enable it and set the number of shots I wanted to take in each bracket.

That’s exactly the advice I was hoping for - thank you so much!

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