I have a P1000. Where I fish I often spot buzzards wheeling at a great height, probably 500feet or more, and usually fail to get a sharp picture. What I normally do is to zoom out to almost maximum and then use the "snap back" function to get the bird in frame and release the snap back to zoom back to the bird. Problem is that the camera only gets time to focus for a split second or so before bird goes out of frame. I do get some passable shots if in wider angle and then cropping.
Messing about I decided to try manual prefocussing with snap back as well, so I set the camera on Bird which gives me a burst of 7 shots. Manual on almost maximum distance and waited for the Buzzard to reappear..................which of course it didn't. But trying it out on distant treetops it seemed to work really well. No delay in getting focus, so it looks very promising.
Back to the lake tomorrow so cross fingers.
Comments welcome
Den
Messing about I decided to try manual prefocussing with snap back as well, so I set the camera on Bird which gives me a burst of 7 shots. Manual on almost maximum distance and waited for the Buzzard to reappear..................which of course it didn't. But trying it out on distant treetops it seemed to work really well. No delay in getting focus, so it looks very promising.
Back to the lake tomorrow so cross fingers.
Comments welcome
Den
