Great flight shot Sir :t: may I ask your settings for it
I was playing with the camera at the time Big. I think it was TV mode with the shutter speed at its fastest.
Rich
And thx btw
Great flight shot Sir :t: may I ask your settings for it
A couple shots for the other day and today.
First what I believe is a cooper's hawk. It was in the shadows against a bright blue sky and I had to make large adjustments to brightness and contrast to be able to get the colors out. Not great but good enough for ID.
The other is a rare visitor to my yard. Eastern Towhee. They are not rare in my area but I have never seen one in my yard. This one appears to be getting ready to go south as they are listed as summer only residents of Massachusetts.
Keep trying various settings,but don't quite seem to be able to get the same sharpness as some other users.
Since everyone else has posted some results, here are some of mine. Again, most are pretty soft but so much better than my previous digiscoping efforts that I am really happy with the SX50.
"I have set mine to zoom to 600mm thus giving enough telephoto to see the bird good so I can get it centered and then zoom the rest of the way manually. I think this works better because if it goes all the way out initially I have difficulty finding the bird."
I agree it's tough to find a bird if the lens starts at maximum (or minimum) zoom. I've set mine to 200 and that seems to work for me.
Jeff
You know about the zoom-back button (top one on the side of the lens front of camera)? I use it all the time. With the lens at full zoom it pulls back to 300mm quickly enabling rapid framing. Releasing it zooms back to full zoom again equally quickly.
If you tap the shutter while holding the button it stays at 300mm when you release.