Still trying to figure out how best to set up the G9. This morning, I tried the Animal Detect focus setting, along with a reasonably-sized single AF square, as per the article Ian linked to a few days ago. The only thing I didn't use was the back button focus. Alas, almost nothing was in focus - I tried single shot, and the two various speeds of burst mode, and ended up with something like 300 frames! I kept...
three. That's what... a 1% hit-rate? :-( I shall try back-button focus soon, but first I'm going to revert to how I used the G80 - which was a small single-point of focus which I place on the target by moving the camera. It seems that this simple approach is best for me - letting the camera do the focus work through all the clever trickery just isn't working yet. I suspect the fact that it was still dark,and quite misty when I got down to the canal didn't help - had to ramp up the ISO to 2000 and the shutter speed down - so the lack of sharpness may be camera shake (but then the lens and the camera both have stabilisation). Also the resulting images were way too noisy for my liking,
Not getting too despondent yet, but I must admit, it's turning into a steep G9 learning curve. Below is one of the three keepers - a blackbird, I assume? Obviously not in flight, and there's not much of interest other than the eye is in focus. In other news, it was a really nice walk and I did see two flocks of cormorants, numbering in excess of thirty. No wonder angling on the canal is hard!
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