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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cristian Mihai" data-source="post: 1705622" data-attributes="member: 54311"><p>Ron, IMHO the shutter speed was too high for the shot with the Sanderling. For good shots with birds taken with ZD 70-300 I would recommend shutter speeds around 1/600 - 1/1000 and apertures around f8. So, I would say that for the light available for your shot with the Sanderling, you didn't need ISO 800 and f5.6. My proposal would be ISO 400 and f6.3. I'm pretty sure that the shutter speed would be around 1/1000 in these conditions. Most of my pics with birds are taken at shutter speeds slower than 1/2000. I use faster shutter speeds only for BIF (IS off).</p></blockquote><p></p>