I think I'm getting the hang of the 50-200

[brian1208]

Having spent a tiring but successful day at the Cuckoo Fair today (and made a bit of money to pay for my next purchase, an EC-14) I decided to have a quick play at shooting House Martins as they dashed about the sky, at distance

The light was good and the contrast fine so I started out using pre-focus to about 100ft, CAF with 9 box setting, 6fps ISO 400 with f4 which gave me around 1/2000th sec

The hit rate was pretty good at around 40% and once lock was on it held it for a few frames

I then tried it with SAF + MF with the settings otherwise the same and the results were poor

So, here are a few shots for you to examine and tell me how I'm doing

un-resized crop of a single Martin



A short chase sequence with two house martins which was much easier to get a lock on (cropped to about 50% of frame then resized down for the web )

[Wee man]

Re: I think I'm getting the hang of the 50-200

Oh go away I still have trouble with aircraft in flight and I mean standing at the airport? Those are great shots.

[brian1208]

Re: I think I'm getting the hang of the 50-200

Thanks Ed, looks like I may have got a good bargain with this lens then?

I found this extra shot hiding in the folder, the chasing bird having been out-turned by the leading one (I corrected the white balance for this one)