Eminent Departure

AlanLichty

AlanLichty

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JimFox said:
Nice timing! They can exit a flower fast and catching them still in the frame can be tricky. Good one!
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Thanks Jim - I thought the bee was long gone when I squeezed off the shot so pure luck I actually got it in the frame. If shooting in flight stuff is a goal this camera has a zillion ways to get the shot with 30fps full frame RAW and AI focus tracking but I quickly discovered turning all that AI stuff on eats batteries for breakfast and leaves you with gobs of disk eating frames to toss for the one you wanted. I turned it all off and decided I wanted to master the basics of what I wanted from the camera first and will come back to those types of features down the road. Besides - spare batteries are currently on Intergalactic backorder.
 
JimFox

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AlanLichty said:
Thanks Jim - I thought the bee was long gone when I squeezed off the shot so pure luck I actually got it in the frame. If shooting in flight stuff is a goal this camera has a zillion ways to get the shot with 30fps full frame RAW and AI focus tracking but I quickly discovered turning all that AI stuff on eats batteries for breakfast and leaves you with gobs of disk eating frames to toss for the one you wanted. I turned it all off and decided I wanted to master the basics of what I wanted from the camera first and will come back to those types of features down the road. Besides - spare batteries are currently on Intergalactic backorder.
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That's a good way to do it with a new camera. Master the basics and then come back to these BIF type things. One of the things the guys that are good at it do, is use the back button focus. Maybe because I have photographed for 50 years without doing that, when I tried to use that I found it very uncomfortable and not intuitive at all. But the good guys do it, so if I wanted to be more serious I would need to switch that on mine.

That's too bad about the batteries on backorder.

I got this cool new battery for backpacking and when I did the wedding a few months ago, and that was where the battery had a build in USB C port in it. You couldn't charge it while in the camera because the port was on the side of the battery, but it made for a fast charge to pull it out and plug that into a USB C cable while putting another battery in.

Fortunately Nikon has been using the same battery since the D800, what 15 years ago? The version has changed, but they are all backward compatible, which is pretty nice. So for my Nikon Z8 and Z6II combo I have roughly a dozen batteries, because Mirrorless in general seem to only get 25% of the battery charge that my D850 DSLR did.
 
AlanLichty

AlanLichty

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JimFox said:
That's a good way to do it with a new camera. Master the basics and then come back to these BIF type things. One of the things the guys that are good at it do, is use the back button focus. Maybe because I have photographed for 50 years without doing that, when I tried to use that I found it very uncomfortable and not intuitive at all. But the good guys do it, so if I wanted to be more serious I would need to switch that on mine.

That's too bad about the batteries on backorder.

I got this cool new battery for backpacking and when I did the wedding a few months ago, and that was where the battery had a build in USB C port in it. You couldn't charge it while in the camera because the port was on the side of the battery, but it made for a fast charge to pull it out and plug that into a USB C cable while putting another battery in.

Fortunately Nikon has been using the same battery since the D800, what 15 years ago? The version has changed, but they are all backward compatible, which is pretty nice. So for my Nikon Z8 and Z6II combo I have roughly a dozen batteries, because Mirrorless in general seem to only get 25% of the battery charge that my D850 DSLR did.
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Canon kind of went over the top with AI compute/autofocus features in this camera and the result is exactly what you might expect for power needs. They used the same form factor for the battery as the previous models including my old DSLR but the new battery delivers a lot more juice than the older ones. There are features that can't be used if you plug in the older models of batteries as they can't deliver the amount of power the onboard processors require. If you leave all of the AI features on it almost shocking how fast the camera can draw the battery down and it looks like everyone who already has one of these cameras immediately ordered spare batteries once they saw how fast it can draw them down.

By default Canon has all of the AI features enabled. The AI autofocus features can do some remarkable magic with people and sports but it can't really follow subjects like the bees above and flubbed a lot of the first captures I tried. The notion of having a ranked set of faces on file in the camera that it can automatically recognize in a crowd and focus on or telling it which sport you are shooting so it can try to predict actions is pretty cool but not what I use my camera for. I almost never shoot people at all although I can see where this would be quite amazing for wedding events. I did try to train my thumb to work with the focus button on the back but I would be better off if there was a left handed version of the controls. I abandoned the back button focus mode and went back to the half press on the shutter release I have grown accustomed to so I can shoot longer during the day.
 
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