The Final Step ...

[momji1971]

Originally Posted by LCPete

Well done Pauline its an amazing camera

And a damned good tog at the back of it!!!

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Originally Posted by momji1971

And a damned good tog at the back of it!!!

Thank you Stu - I try - well Ian says 'I;m trying' ....



This was pin sharp in the camera (honest!) but its pixilated on the laptop via WiFi for some reason - Chris H says it looks ok so it must be! I had a grand time with the camera yesterday - it was worth the plan of rushing up the M6 to the caravan and flinging the mobile pop-up out just as the snow was starting! I have a robin shot which I think will make xmas cards for next year (if I ever find time to do it!!)

Pauline

[The_Moaner]

That Nuthatch looks Good this way..
I think I'll stay with me 7D as I still not mastered it yet.LOL
Most photogs I know do not use the Back Button and get far better images than me..So I might put me 7D back to it's defaults and use the take button instead. Just for a month to see how I do. Useing Single/Spot or Cluster only mind you. I can always keep back button for C1, if it will work.
That Mk4 of yours sounds complicated to me.

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Originally Posted by The_Moaner

That Nuthatch looks Good this way..
I think I'll stay with me 7D as I still not mastered it yet.LOL
Most photogs I know do not use the Back Button and get far better images than me..So I might put me 7D back to it's defaults and use the take button instead. Just for a month to see how I do. Useing Single/Spot or Cluster only mind you. I can always keep back button for C1, if it will work.
That Mk4 of yours sounds complicated to me.

Thanks Dennis - I can see the nuthatch is clear now I'm back home on the big comp. The portable hotspot connection doesn't give clear pics - they are all slightly pixilated so you have to know that a photo is pin sharp before uploading it while using that connection.

Yes the 1D is complicated but I think it comes down in the end to the usual stuff - keep central spot focusing - but I can't make my mind up whether to have a tight ring around that as in 9 spots lit or 11 or all 45 - the camera 'hands off' to neighboring focus spots as you move and it all depends on the size of the subject and how fast it is moving as to whether the camera picks up on it - or thats what I think at the min ........ A bigger sensor or a less large compression 1.3 as against 1.6 (or7) in the 7D means a bigger area to focus in and tho there are more focus points the image is consequently smaller in its surrounding 'space' so its harder to hit on the eye sharp and not always helped by having more focus spots to do it with. I would have like the central spot with 4 in a cross shape around type configuration, instead of the central and the next nearest is 9 surrounding - what bit of the bird is closest to one of those 9 is what it goes for - whereas with the 4 you could be sure you were hitting the eye ..... or something like that - well thats my thoughts on it up to now!!!

I seem to think that you can have the back and the top shutter button set for focussing on the 7D - this means you can focus first with your thumb and hit the mark then the next press with the top normal button find focus really quick and then takes the shot?

Pauline