I recently purchased a new R8. I have been practicing action shots with my dog playing frisbee. I have subject detection set to animals - eye detection on- AF on servo- expanded AF area:around - I was using a shutter speed of 1/1000. Using a Canon...
Ok, tonight I took a few shots with these changes: switched to 1st curtain shutter, raised the shutter speed, changed to AF case 4. Things look a lot better! Thanks for the tips everyone. This is heavily cropped. The real test will be the frisbee...
I have used BBF for years with my other cameras, and it is ingrained in me. I did have it on tracking animals, eye detect. I had the AF case on Auto, but have changed it now to case 4 to be more responsive to things that quickly change direction.Yo...
I will try a faster shutter speed and see if that helps. Probably stop down as well. I was trying to isolate her a bit from the background, but I guess I better nail the focus first.
I will try a faster shutter speed- I see on your pic that you have it at 1/3200th, and I was using 1/1000th. I had my AF area set to the 4th choice - Expand AF area:Around (the one with the square surrounded by boxes). I didn't get to try again thi...
Yes, Servo enabled."I have subject detection set to animals - eye detection on- AF on servo- expanded AF area:around - I was using a shutter speed of 1/1000. "