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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kevindurose" data-source="post: 1300823" data-attributes="member: 8155">johnZ,I dont think me posting thousands of images on here will prove anything.  Besides, i'm advocating the use of one shot for flying birds in smoe situations.  Think about this surely you must have come across the situation where you are trying to photograph leets say a tern on an inland site and all is well untill the bird dips below tree line.  We all know what happens, virtually every shot is out of focus because the camera has locked onto the trees at the back of the lake.  Well next time this happens try going onto one shot and do as I say. I admit you will get some locking problems where the camera locks onto the background, but more importantly you will get some pin sharp shots were the centre focus point has picked up the bird. I was prompted by a friend to convert to the one shot technique after using servo for 3 years on flying birds.  And the same as him I dont use servo hardly ever now.  As i said on the back of the camera you seem to be getting better shots, but the majority are slightly soft since the servo is lagging behind the bird.  I have attached one photo which was taken using 1 shot.  This would have been virtually impossible using servo as the bird was nearly always flying against mountains in the background.  Pic slightly resized and compressed to 200k.  Let me know if you want to see the original RAW image I can always email it over.  I must admit this bird is not flying towards or away from the camera, i will look another out and post later.Kev</blockquote>

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