How to catch a finch This whole capture takes place in 0.2 seconds - 24 frames - impossible to see with the naked eye. This is a big crop using the 200-600 at 200mm while still trying to figure out how to keep the birds in the frame. My brother got one good frame with the A1/600 which I will post as a reference if I can find a copy. But one frame and missed the action prior to the catch occurring because of the slower frame rate.
3 frames from a sequence where because the falcon was coming from behind me - using the cover - there was no way to track it incoming. So I thought I would focus on the likely prey and use pre-capture when I hear it come past - about 30 meters away from the water. Of course it chose a bird just to the left of the frame. Not sure this link with the full sequence will work - since its on fb Lanner catches a namaqua dove https://www.facebook.com/duncan.groenewald/videos/1158310475454108/
You're not going to have a lot of success without it because they duck down just prior to jumping up and none of the other cameras were able to maintain focus when they did that.
Went out looking for loons that appeared in a nearby lake (yellow billed, pacific, and common). got documentation but nothing worth posting, Some dippers were available plus a pied grebe.
Turns out that the A9iii works pretty well when trained on fast moving human subjects as well. I really am enjoying the precapture capability to get that moment when the disc is up for grabs. Here are some photos from last weekend of the Tufts EWO women’s frisbee team at a preseason tune-up tournament.
