Roseate Spoonbill-22-3120543

April 3. Using my friend Nancy's OM-1 in Florida on our recent trip I had a chance to photograph a variety of egrets and herons with the new camera and test the AF-tracking -bird. Great test for me, because I literally had the camera in-hand just the evening before, but the menu was easy to follow and the AF performed wonderfully. Sometimes, I'd literally have just a second or two to react to a bird flying in, and if I had that critical seconds or so to get the lens up, aimed, and on the bird, I usually nailed it. The only times I didn't is when I literally, literally, just pulled up the lens, had the bird in the frame, and fired - really shot gunning. Even then, I'd often get the shot, but sometimes even trying was somewhat ridiculous. Birds that I acquired from a distance I could follow until the birds' wingspans more than filled the frame - as you see here with images that are only slightly cropped. I was IMPRESSED!

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