As I'm looking back and taking a closer look at the photos, I'm realizing that alot of the close up photos that were out of focus were in darker parts of the woods. So that, plus the very shallow depth of field would explain that. Which would be understandable.


However, the longer focal length with large subject distance seems to have very low hit rates as well. I used your link and estimated that at 200mm and a decent distance away I have well over a foot of DOF. I focus then recompose, but I'm thinking I'm not that big of a swayer [:P]


So I'm thinking maybe the subject was too small? aka. need a longer focal length!! I'm not sure how big my subject needs to be in order for the AF to properly focus... Maybe I'm just asking for the impossible. I've placed a roughly identically sized box around where I aimed my center AF point, then recomposed.


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