Originally posted by Zygonyx Hummm, i thought using your excellent manual focussing lenses wouldn't seem to make such bursts that necessary ?
MF makes them impossible not un-necssary.
Although MF does have some advantages, in that you can adjust focus without taking your finger off the shutter button, faster than you can track in AF.c.
These shots were taken out of a 23 shot burst....
0.125s apart, 8 FPS. Your reflexes aren't fast enough to catch the movement as broken down by the camera and allows me to select on how interesting the pose is. 23 shot buffer at 8 FPS gets me 3 seconds, and then I have to wait for the buffer to clear before I continue shooting. Having the camera handle AF and exposure cuts my workload in half on these images and lets me focus on what the animal is doing. The second shot, I didn't even see happen, but it was there in the burst.
Without burst mode all of the images would look like this.
I much prefer the animal doing something.
Same with the birds.
Of the 6 or so shots in this burst, none of the others compare to this one.
One click for one image and this image would have been missed.
For wildlife in general, without burst mode, most of the images I actually post would have been missed, and I'd likely have ended up posting an image that I didn't even keep, because some compositional feature wasn't up to scratch.
Last edited by normhead; 06-15-2019 at 08:08 AM.