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Some advice from all you expert bird togs, please.
I've just bought a new camera body (Canon 800D) for wildlife so my old 550D is now landscape and walkabout. The 800D has the 45 point af system where you can use a single selectable point, all points or zone them off into 3 or 9 areas. For 'static' birds I would use a single af point as I always have, but what about birds in flight? I've always failed miserably at BIF, mostly my own incompetence but partly because of the 550's 9 point af. If my chosen af point slips off the bird it's game over. The lens hunts and can't refocus before the bird's in the next county. I presume using all points or an area increases my chances of maintaining focus but is there a mode that works best? I'm using servo af and continuous shooting, obviously. I'd pop out to my local reservoir, find a few gulls and work it out for myself but the light's horrible, it's probably going to rain and I've picked up a stinking cold
I've just bought a new camera body (Canon 800D) for wildlife so my old 550D is now landscape and walkabout. The 800D has the 45 point af system where you can use a single selectable point, all points or zone them off into 3 or 9 areas. For 'static' birds I would use a single af point as I always have, but what about birds in flight? I've always failed miserably at BIF, mostly my own incompetence but partly because of the 550's 9 point af. If my chosen af point slips off the bird it's game over. The lens hunts and can't refocus before the bird's in the next county. I presume using all points or an area increases my chances of maintaining focus but is there a mode that works best? I'm using servo af and continuous shooting, obviously. I'd pop out to my local reservoir, find a few gulls and work it out for myself but the light's horrible, it's probably going to rain and I've picked up a stinking cold