I do not track wildlife, birds, or any of that sort of action. Photos I may be taking will probably be editorial, travel, and street. I'm a newbie in all of the above subjects.
However, I thought I will get out of my comfort zone, take K-3 out this morning, and track bird in flight for the first time to play. The lens I've used is the 18-135mm WR that came with K-3. So, this is the closest I can get. It was around 8am. So, light has only started to come out. But, for the most part light level is still quite low (hence may have a few motion blur on a few of them), except the sky.
Please forgive the jumpiness of the images. I was just waving the camera around, in some cases going reverse to the bird
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Also, please excuse the blown highlights and lousy post processing in a lot of these images and evaluate the AFC performance only. I'm lazy
and just created a Photoshop action to take care of it instead of individually which would take forever.
I think it did reasonably well, though probably none of them are poster worthy
. All the images were taken handheld, AFC with high bursts. ISO 100 & f/5.6 @ 135mm. Varying shutter speeds from 1/400 to 1/1000. These are complete bursts. Not one image omitted. Please excuse the lengthy images. Most test sequences I have seen while researching K-3 were short. So, I thought I will post a longer one. The file setting I have used is JPG S. So, buffer write time was reasonable. Raw might take longer.
Hopefully, this serves as a test sample (either good or bad) for the performance of K-3 AFC for people researching into getting or upgrading to a K-3.
Admins & moderators: I assume the number of images are ok since they are external links. If not, please feel free to edit / remove / move them to appropriate location. Thanks.
Bird Sequence A (everything in this sequence came out well). If the images doesn't appear to be in sequence, it's because I moved my camera around to force the bird back into the center point of the frame
. Also, these are truly from the same burst since I shot a single still between each sequences to separate them; no chance of getting confused.
Bird Sequence B
The last frame is bad probably because I thought that's enough spraying for the day and my head is also twisted about 90 degree right and 85 degree up
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Last edited by penmar; 01-09-2014 at 08:20 PM.