Eastern Phoebe 2 - 22 May 2016 by Leeco

Photography • Insects • posted on May 23, 2016

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I spent a little more time today experimenting with the new Fugi S9500W camera I got for Xmas. The noisy photos I have been taking have frustrated me. I have also been having problems getting the camera to even focus on birds in trees. This camera has no manual focus capabilities. I have managed to get some shots by pre-focusing on the bird feeder and then swinging the camera to a bird in the tree the feeder hangs from. This works sometimes but it is a hit and miss proposition to have the focus distances being equal. Today I discovered a method that works much much better. I had set the camera to macro mode while I was shooting Dragonflies and forgot to turn the macro off while shooting birds a bit later. I spotted a bird in the feeder tree and when zoomed in on it, I found that the camera would focus on the subject. Woo Hoo! This lets me move back to about 35-40' from the feeder and get better shots than when I sat just 10' away and did not use the macro mode. This also allowed a lot more birds to feel safer with using the feeder. I am not sure why the macro mode helps the camera lock in on the subject. I am not even sure what happens to the camera settings and/or software instructions when macro mode is used. My thanks to those who have taken the time to comment. The feedback is appreciated. Lee

Comments (5)

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Katraz

2:30AM | Mon, 23 May 2016

The macro mode keeps the focus at the closer end of the lens travel so that it doesn't hunt from closeup to infinity maybe that is why it's working better, It may also have narrowed the focus point like a spot meter setting, its just a thought but can you set your camera metering to spot or center weighted. Great shot you seem to have ruffled his feathers a bit.

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