Got one!
Female Common Kingfisher emerging with a snack.
Spent last Saturday trying to get this shot and took about a thousand - most of which were rubbish for one reason or another - but you only need 1!
Had to try and work out exactly where the Kingfisher would emerge and manually focus with the fastest shutter speed and maximum depth of field possible (whilst not pushing the ISO too high). So in other words 'spray and pray' as soon as the bird dives.
Even at f/7.1 there is only a few millimetres depth of field - luckily on this occassion she emerged parallel to my plane of view and from the right spot.
Even for the R5 the animal eye AF can't grab the bird eye diving or emerging - but at least it can take 20 frames a second which helps greatly with this type of thing.
Got one!
Female Common Kingfisher emerging with a snack.
Spent last Saturday trying to get this shot and took about a thousand - most of which were rubbish for one reason or another - but you only need 1!
Had to try and work out exactly where the Kingfisher would emerge and manually focus with the fastest shutter speed and maximum depth of field possible (whilst not pushing the ISO too high). So in other words 'spray and pray' as soon as the bird dives.
Even at f/7.1 there is only a few millimetres depth of field - luckily on this occassion she emerged parallel to my plane of view and from the right spot.
Even for the R5 the animal eye AF can't grab the bird eye diving or emerging - but at least it can take 20 frames a second which helps greatly with this type of thing.