Nick Nishizaka
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 Re: Pre-production 1Dmk4 tests with Ai-servo | |
It\'s pretty sad when someone pulls the \"I got more experience than you\" card.
Sure, I haven\'t shot tens of thousands of birds and I have absolutely no intentions of doing it in the future, not to discount the genre. Not at all. It just doesn\'t interest me.
Now I have shot birds, many of them in fact, that always seem to make it into the trash bin because I usually shoot them when I am testing and for me they don\'t hold too much artistic value other than to evaluate the camera. Again, that\'s just me. Not knocking it one bit and I cam attest to how difficult it can be depending on the bird and its flight patterns. Believe it or not,we do have ponds, ducks, gulls, etc. In NYC.
I have found that a bird coming at you with consistent speed is fairly easy to shoot as opposed to say a bird flying erratically.
And honestly, though I realize there are lots of birders out there, that\'s hardly the only genre that require precision AF. Hardly.
But hey, you are the 10k duck shot man. Who am I to argue?
PetKal wrote:
Nick Nishizaka wrote:
Exactly...especially when it\'s gliding towards you at a near constant speed. Those are actually the easiest things to track.
I know the water is supposed to be the \"busy background\", but still, I don\'t see it was a huge challenge or enough of one to dismiss the athlete running towards the camera.
Adam L wrote:
keithreeder wrote:
Nick Nishizaka wrote:
A duck flying straight at you? Honestly, is that more challenging that a runner coming right at you?
Oh, you\'ve got to be kidding, right?
It\'s not really that difficult. If a duck is flying straight at you, it\'s not moving horiztonally in the frame, or vertically.
I\'m not going to compare it to an athlete taking up the entire frame, but I don\'t see how a duck flying at you could be viewed as challenging. You barely have to move the camera!
And if the target is getting larger in the frame by the second, it means that fuzzy background suddenly becomes less of a target for the AF system. Get your initial lock, and presto!
We need to look at this empirically a bit. And I\'ll try to be gentle. 
Nick, I estimate I have shot flights like that, some easier, some more difficult, at least ten thousand times more than you have, in all kinds of camera-lens combinations. I must have also posted several hundreds of those shots on this board in the past year alone. Now, based on the shots I\'ve seen you post, my judgement is that your photography experience is limited even with simple stationary birds like a seagull on a rail.
Now, you are telling us that the target type I consider difficult is in fact \"the easiest thing to track\" ? Hmm.....by golly, what have I been doing wrong all these years  
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