Quote Originally Posted by wickerprints
Have you tried experimenting with how slow you can make your shutter before the subject's motion becomes blurred?

That depends on the bird. With BIF such as hawks, vultures I can lower shutter speed to about 1/500 without IS and 1/320 with.


For titmice and chickadees (like the ones in the above photos) things start to get blurry at about 1/1000.


Quote Originally Posted by wickerprints
get the sense that you can lower your ISO by at least 1 full stop.

Nice! I'll try that next.


thanks again for your help [H]


brendan