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Thanks Daniel. I will try auto ISO.........BBF????...........I have been thinking of checking and setting the AF fine tune as I think it can be improved, also thinking to AF fine tune the lens to my D300 as the AF is good on the D300. Thanks for your suggestions.
Thanks Daniel. I will try auto ISO.........BBF????...........I have been thinking of checking and setting the AF fine tune as I think it can be improved, also thinking to AF fine tune the lens to my D300 as the AF is good on the D300. Thanks for your suggestions.
Thanks for reply mike The last bit of your post confused me a little. Did you mean taking a close up using minimum focus at 600mm to test for softness
Charles, sorry for not getting back sooner.
Micro adjust is exactly as it sounds - tiny adjustments. If you shoot a subject up close then you have less depth of field than shooting at the same aperture at a distant subject, so with the distance of your peregrine here micro adjust would have absolutely no visible effect. Micro adjusting can quickly get confusing and make things worse unless you're sure you need it and take your time.
As an example, take this kingfisher shot -
I use this as I think kingfishers are a good example as they will often sit dead still as opposed to something like a blue tit which is always making tiny movements.
Here, I put focus bang on the eye so I would expect the eye to be the sharpest part of the shot here, which it is. If my set up was out and was front focussing, then you would see the eye on the fish would be sharp and the eye on the kingy would be softer. As always, I would fire off a burst of about 3 frames here, and if all 3 had the fish eyes sharper then I would know I had a micro adjust issue and I would need to take action.
The distance in the focus plane between the fish eye and the birds eye is probably about 1/2 inch, which is quite significant at such a close up shot as this. Now, take that 1/2 inch to a shot of your Peregrine. It really doesn't make much difference. On yours, any loss of detail is far more likely to be down to the size of the crop, and shooting through so much warm air, then finally processing.
It doesn't scream at me that you need to be making any adjustments just yet.
Hope that helps a bit, if not let me know
Mike