![]() The Turkey Vulture and the Nighthawk getting a drink. I know on a couple of these shots the camera focused on the eye because I remember looking at the picture on the camera to see where the camera focused and was amazed the box was right on the eye. Most over the past year as these were from April of 2022 thru current. These pictures below are all from my Z9 since I purchased it. If a bird is flying towards me I nearly always hand off from Wide L to 3D.įrankly, I didn't know the part about long necked birds being harder to focus on but it makes a lot of sense to me with the experiences I've had shooting both GBH's and Cranes. I use 3d in some cases and have it programed to my joy stick while I keep the camera in Wide L for my BBAF. Usually it is for 5 to 10 seconds with short bursts while I am tracking. ![]() However, rarely do i stay on a BIF for just a second or two. With practice you can switch between focus modes and toggle from Fx to Dx modes very quickly and yes in 2 seconds. I'm still learning the Z8 as I have only had it a couple of months and just havn't shot that many BIF with it. The same principles apply with the Z8 except you don't have quite as many programmable buttons. ![]() Ive had my Z9 since January of 2022 and have a lot of practice. It takes practice to keep a bird in flight in the center of the frame. In fact, users of higher end Nikon DSLRs have long programmed buttons for similar purposes because the cameras allowed it and it is very helpful to be able to instantly start using a different AF mode depending on circumstances. ![]() These are very easy, efficient, and useful and most people would be using them regardless of how well they thought the AF worked. I have my movie record button set to turn of subject detection so if the camera is grabbing the neck of a heron or something as a subject even though my AF point is on its head, I can press this and it will stop doing that and revert to focusing on the head/eye where my AF point is. Lots of people have the Fn1 button set to activate 3D tracking, so regardless of what AF mode the camera is in it will immediately start 3D tracking if pressed. Others have the Fn1 button set to do the same. For example, some people have the DISP button - rarely used for its default purpose - set to AF-ON single point, meaning that pressing this button will instantly start AFing with single point AF. It seems that most users of the Z8/9 (at least for action/wildlife) have multiple buttons programmed to activate different AF modes for instant switching. For the later, it is easier to place a small AF area over the face but how to you manage a Hawk or Eagle swooping out of a tree or a Sandhill landing at an angle where the head position is always changing in the frame? Again, my Canon and Sony bodies didn’t struggle in these scenarios even when they were operating in full arrays.ĭo you think Nikon is working on improving these algorithms for BIF? The static ones seem really good and I have few problems with waterfowl or other birds swimming and the airplane/car settings are fantastic. Nonetheless, it struggles with birds who are flying at obtuse angles or those flying directly at the observer. In fact, I’ve found it gets fooled less than my R5/R3 on certain static birds such as a GBH, where the R5 frequently jumps to the neck. The Z8 (Z9) does a heck of a job recognizing and tracking eyes on people, animals,and static birds (even long necked ones). We have information about the estimated crash areas: the first one has to be somewhere near the local weather station near the port zone, the other one is near the bunker in the northwest.Hi Steve, thanks for your explanation and for confirming to a degree what I am observing. Find their impact locations and bring me the memory disks. This information can make a good deal with my partners. They should contain information about all movements at the beginning of the conflict. Two drones were shot down over the coast, now that getting to them has become possible, we can try to pull out the memory block from these. But local air defense was apparently against democratic eyes. NATO has carefully studied the conflict even before the Blue Helmets force surge and sent several drones to recon.
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