Danny Young
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Bsmooth wrote:
I've tried the zone focusing,especially with my favorite swallows, but more often times than not I wind up with a bunch of what I call almost shots. Just curious what your hit ratio is. Out of say 100 shots, do you get say 10 or 20 in focus ?
Read you article its very good and I saved it for future reference !
Oh dear oh dear, Swallows huh  You pick one of the hardest BIF's on this planet to capture  Swallows would be around the 10 out of a hundred, but remember even with the 500mm on an m4/3 or APS-C sensor when we fire off a fast burst, more than 1 shot should be in focus. So FF it should be more. the trick is to nail that focus in flight on something that ducks and dives all over the place.
There must be some amazing Swallow BIF's here at FM using AF, It probably comes down to that AF speed. The Oly E-M1 and E-M1 MKII we are seeing some incredible Swallow BIF's from Vas with the Oly 300 F/4, so some FF DSLR's should be able to handle it. I've seen quite a few from FF users, some amazing shots out there.
Generally I just try and track them (key word there is "try") and manual focus at the same time. Fast old hands maybe and knowing exactly which way the focus ring turns, forward or backward to nail them. Plenty of misses though for sure.
Not great shots, but what they teach you is that after taking shots of Swallow BIF's, larger BIF's like Hawks, Cormorant's, Heron's, Stilts, etc, are fairly easy. Keep practising on Swallows, it does you a world of good in other areas.
All the best and thanks, tough subject though to pick on
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