new camera R5 and canon 100-400 L IS II USM - whar are the best settings for shooting wildlife

[p4pictures · Accepted solution]

Here's a shortlist of settings to make…

• Select the face + tracking AF method
• Select SERVO AF
• Set the subject to detect to animals
• Enable eye detection
• Set the initial AF point for servo AF to anything apart from AUTO
• Set AF case to Case A

Now when you use the camera you will have a smaller AF point in the frame, use that to target the animal you want the camera to focus on, and the camera will track it - moving the AF point with the animal as you recompose or the animal moves around the frame.

[Dmcd3055]

thank you

[Waddizzle]

Welcome to the forums!  The answer is practice.  Gain experience and knowledge.

I hate to say it, but there really isn’t any one set of camera settings that works for all people and all scenarios.  The AF settings that work for me, may not work for you.  The exposure settings for daytime shooting will not work for golden hour shooting.

That is the challenge.  Figure it out on the fly.