Douglas L wrote: Uzay wrote:
First day with A1+200-600, results are terrible, mud like pictures, hardly in focus, total disappointment, i kbow it's my fault but i used to shoot with Nikon D750+200-500 using 3D tracking with more keepers, wish guys like arbitrage, molson, davev, billintexas, douglasl would be next to me so that i could learn few things. I had watched many videos on youtube, i mean i studied but appearently i need more practice. Only birds around were sparrows so i had many troubles mostly AF and tracking, eye AF, zone, wide i tried everything
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Sorry to hear that you are having issues with this combo. If you could post a few pictures and settings we may able to give our opinion.
A few from yesterday with the same combo.
arbitrage wrote: Uzay wrote:
First day with A1+200-600, results are terrible, mud like pictures, hardly in focus, total disappointment, i kbow it's my fault but i used to shoot with Nikon D750+200-500 using 3D tracking with more keepers, wish guys like arbitrage, molson, davev, billintexas, douglasl would be next to me so that i could learn few things. I had watched many videos on youtube, i mean i studied but appearently i need more practice. Only birds around were sparrows so i had many troubles mostly AF and tracking, eye AF, zone, wide i tried everything
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We can certainly try to give some suggestions but it would help to see some examples of the muddy shots and any shots you felt worked out. At this time of year most muddy photos are a result of atmospherics and not the camera/lens.
Were these sparrows just perched or were you trying to get them in flight? Were the AF points dancing over the subject? Was Eye-AF icon activating?
My most used mode is Wide without Tracking but with Eye-AF for birds on. Zone without tracking but with eye-af is also one I use. For birds that are surrounded by messy sticks I then go to a Small or Expand Flex Spot usually with Tracking and eye-af but sometimes with tracking off.
Here are some samples that i'm not very happy about
Douglas L wrote: Uzay wrote:
First day with A1+200-600, results are terrible, mud like pictures, hardly in focus, total disappointment, i kbow it's my fault but i used to shoot with Nikon D750+200-500 using 3D tracking with more keepers, wish guys like arbitrage, molson, davev, billintexas, douglasl would be next to me so that i could learn few things. I had watched many videos on youtube, i mean i studied but appearently i need more practice. Only birds around were sparrows so i had many troubles mostly AF and tracking, eye AF, zone, wide i tried everything
.1
Sorry to hear that you are having issues with this combo. If you could post a few pictures and settings we may able to give our opinion.
A few from yesterday with the same combo.
arbitrage wrote: Uzay wrote:
First day with A1+200-600, results are terrible, mud like pictures, hardly in focus, total disappointment, i kbow it's my fault but i used to shoot with Nikon D750+200-500 using 3D tracking with more keepers, wish guys like arbitrage, molson, davev, billintexas, douglasl would be next to me so that i could learn few things. I had watched many videos on youtube, i mean i studied but appearently i need more practice. Only birds around were sparrows so i had many troubles mostly AF and tracking, eye AF, zone, wide i tried everything
.1
We can certainly try to give some suggestions but it would help to see some examples of the muddy shots and any shots you felt worked out. At this time of year most muddy photos are a result of atmospherics and not the camera/lens.
Were these sparrows just perched or were you trying to get them in flight? Were the AF points dancing over the subject? Was Eye-AF icon activating?
My most used mode is Wide without Tracking but with Eye-AF for birds on. Zone without tracking but with eye-af is also one I use. For birds that are surrounded by messy sticks I then go to a Small or Expand Flex Spot usually with Tracking and eye-af but sometimes with tracking off.
Here are some samples that i'm not very happy about
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