I love to shoot BIF (raptors) and the place I visit the birds are very far away. Occasionally they do approach to about 50 meters to me but most times they are about 100m or beyond where most of the predating action occurs.
With birds against the sky the focus acquisition is satisfactory but once they drop against a background of trees both cameras will grab the background. I have tried all the various AF cases plus tweaking in the AF Menu and nothing seems to work. I use back-button AF. Am I asking too much from the cameras or am I doing something wrong? Lenses used are 500/F4 Mk1; 400/5.6 and 300/2.8 Mk1.
Would love to hear from experienced shooters how it is done.
Thanks in advance.
With birds against the sky the focus acquisition is satisfactory but once they drop against a background of trees both cameras will grab the background. I have tried all the various AF cases plus tweaking in the AF Menu and nothing seems to work. I use back-button AF. Am I asking too much from the cameras or am I doing something wrong? Lenses used are 500/F4 Mk1; 400/5.6 and 300/2.8 Mk1.
Would love to hear from experienced shooters how it is done.
Thanks in advance.