jonoslack
Active member
Okay okay okay, I know it isn't a D3, or even a D700.
Still, today I thought I'd give it some freedom, these were all shot with the D60-250.
This first one was of a housemartin (like a small swift for those that don't know) hunting for flies. They fly incredibly fast, so much that at 250mm it was really impossible to keep them in the frame, however, on a couple of occasions I did keep them in the frame - I had the autofocus set to 11 point, auto select, the focus set to continuous - when I shot this I could see the focus tracking around the focus points. it really was fast:
boring shot, but point made (not cropped):
Damn dog had legged it into a field of barley - he would appear for half a second here - then another half second there.
I caught a glimpse here:
here is a crop
this is another full frame shot:
the point being that when leaping out of 3 ft of barley, you don't get long to grab the focus and get the shot, and the apparently lugubrious 60-250 actually did a really grand job.
Sorry about the boring photos!
I think that the point here is that a little practice and knowledge of how the camera actually works can get good results - I'm not an action photographer, but it's nice to be able to grab a bit of action, and it seems to be able to do it!
Still, today I thought I'd give it some freedom, these were all shot with the D60-250.
This first one was of a housemartin (like a small swift for those that don't know) hunting for flies. They fly incredibly fast, so much that at 250mm it was really impossible to keep them in the frame, however, on a couple of occasions I did keep them in the frame - I had the autofocus set to 11 point, auto select, the focus set to continuous - when I shot this I could see the focus tracking around the focus points. it really was fast:
boring shot, but point made (not cropped):
Damn dog had legged it into a field of barley - he would appear for half a second here - then another half second there.
I caught a glimpse here:
here is a crop
this is another full frame shot:
the point being that when leaping out of 3 ft of barley, you don't get long to grab the focus and get the shot, and the apparently lugubrious 60-250 actually did a really grand job.
Sorry about the boring photos!
I think that the point here is that a little practice and knowledge of how the camera actually works can get good results - I'm not an action photographer, but it's nice to be able to grab a bit of action, and it seems to be able to do it!