surfnron wrote:
I like to \"see\" your thought process Peter.At this size, the eyes do look sharp ~ Ron
Well, Ron, they do....but when I look at the 100% crop, then I see that the critical focus point ended up slightly ahead of the eyes. Mind you, it is not possible to control that sort of thing at all......you see a bird approaching very fast, raise the camera/lens and aim at the bird, bump AF once of twice if you have the time for that, fire 2-3 shots and it is over in 2 seconds.
The fine focus placement from the tip of the bill to the wing leading edge is largely random.
On the following image you can see it perhaps more clearly......200 f/2 IS was used wide open, the duck was some 12-15 ft distant, and all I could do was to aim the centre AF point at its forehead....in this case there was enough DoF so the eyes turned out reasonably sharp.
