Just Testing

[missedshot]

Not for the best quality, just a quick test of best-frame-capture. The recent post about this subject got a bit lengthy so here's some last weekend stuff.

The weather was terrible, trying to keep the rain driven by a thirty mph wind off the lens. It was really hard to hold the camera steady, even during motion.

The first three were a BFC burst in M.







As you can see, I couldn't keep the Gull in the frame properly, and the horizon is crooked.

Then another BFC stationary subject, the twins. Again the gusting wind was a problem.



Just one in continuous H



I straightened the horizon on this one. As I was leaving just did a quick in camera HDR of the Bay. I don't see much smoothing of the waves with the three combined shots.



O.K. so the small viewfinder makes birds in flight extremely hard to manage. Using the temporary zoom out button does help to some degree. If the wind and rain hadn't been so severe using the LCD may have been possible. Is birds-in-flight an S1 strength no, it's really hard but fun trying.

 

[OutsideTheMatrix]

They're not bad! We have a lot of sea gulls here (and right outside my house!) so I've been interested in Best Frame Capture for them in flight for awhile now. I guess this is something where you wouldn't want to use the full zoom to capture them? How close were you to them-- they look really big for such a short focal length! And is there any particular reason you shoot them at 4 MP rather than full resolution 16 MP? Also do you shoot burst after burst or only one burst in BFC mode? I think you should have tried BFC mode at H speed and shoot a few consecutive bursts. I did up to 11 or 12 consecutive bursts at H speed at both 16 MP and 4 MP size and the camera never slowed down (you just need to allow 4-5 seconds between each burst so the camera can save the images.)

My problem with sea gulls or any birds really is that they are here but far away so I would have to use somewhere closer to full zoom to capture them even in flight.

Our weather has been horrible here too, Saturday we had snow 1-2 inches, which was pretty, but Saturday night we had ice and then Sunday we had heavy rain 2 inches and high winds 70 mph and Monday it was windy all day with power outages from Sunday night into Monday!

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