Trying to catch song birds in flight for a hour or so this afternoon, this was the best I came up with. I find it very very hard to track their short fast fights back and forth to the bird feeders.
1D MKIV
500mm
ISO 2000
f/4.5
1/2500
Wow! At f/4.5 to DOF is not much to catch a fast bird in flight. At 10 feet the DOF is less that +/- 1/8" from nominal, and at 20 feet it is just over +/- 1/2". That would be hard to track. Impressive.
The malard was very nice also.
Last edited by conropl; 03-07-2012 at 09:03 PM.
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