Originally posted by DeadJohn Thanks. Are you using the catch-in-focus feature, or is it more spray-and-pray?
Highly calculated prefocus. Im aware i will have many misses, but when I hit its as my photos present. I use custom feeders and become aware of the birds habits. I just posted a photo of a chipping sparrow captured in focus at 1.4. A chipping sparrow with its wings at its side is as small as your pointer finger = im not praying too much.
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Originally posted by DeadJohn Thanks. Are you using the catch-in-focus feature, or is it more spray-and-pray?
These birds are too fast for ANY AF sytem - maybe not the A7R IV. The birds fly through the frame before the AF system can activate. My EM1 II has the ability to set a focus area x-feet to x-feet. Anything thats not in the focus zone the camera will not fire. I set my EM1 II with flash mounted. Since I only need 1 in focus shot, I set the camera to single shot. The camera never fired because it couldnt detect fast enough. I then used my hand to see how fast it could detect = way too slow to use catch in focus. It would be interesting to see A7R IV animal ey AF is fast enough.
No one realizes how fast these birds are until they try shooting them in motion. A Blue Jay flys about 14 to 20 feet a second. Chipping Sparrows, Chickadees, Titmouse, Nuthatch are even faster