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jonh68
Mar-01-2008, 08:32 PM
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Ric Grupe
Mar-02-2008, 04:51 AM
Bees In Flight! :rolleyes :rofl

You really are a glutton for punishment. Little birds are hard enough.:D
jonh68
Mar-02-2008, 06:14 AM
I still have the headache. Keeping one eye on the bee and one eye in the viewfinder while manually focusing sends some weird signals to the brain.:crazy
raptorcaptor
Mar-02-2008, 03:45 PM
The bees knees!:thumb
buddy1
Mar-02-2008, 05:44 PM
Bee--Utiful shots!
jonh68
Mar-02-2008, 07:13 PM
Thankzzzzz!
eL eSs Vee
Mar-02-2008, 08:40 PM
That second to last shot is a real honey! :thumb Must be a real challenge. How do you do it?
jonh68
Mar-03-2008, 04:58 AM
I believe this is a carpenter bee and they are territorial. It had a flying pattern so I had the focus set in that general area. When it flew inot it, I grabbed the manual focus ring and hoped for the best. It helps to keep one eye on the bee and one eye in viewfinder.
jwear
Mar-03-2008, 05:21 AM
you is fast :thumb
jonh68
Mar-03-2008, 05:49 AM
you is fast :thumb

I had to take over 300 shots to get maybe 10 that were decent. It's not so much fast as being prepared. It really helps to have a manual focus override. I was using a canon 300 f4 with a 1.4 TC on a mark IIn body.
jwear
Mar-03-2008, 06:58 AM
I had to take over 300 shots to get maybe 10 that were decent. It's not so much fast as being prepared. It really helps to have a manual focus override. I was using a canon 300 f4 with a 1.4 TC on a mark IIn body.I bet your keeper rate would jump up without the tc :huh
jonh68
Mar-03-2008, 07:20 PM
I bet your keeper rate would jump up without the tc :huh

Maybe. When I was trying to use AF, the camera was grabbing the background, not the bee. I used AF to focus on the plant it was flying around, and then grabbed the manual focus ring to focus on the bee. I had better luck on manual focus.