Timeline for Nikon D3300 takes photos with no focus point
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| Aug 28, 2017 at 17:47 | comment | added | JerryTheC | Don't forget to pre-focus at about the right distance; that's one of the important factors in cutting the focus time down if your lens takes a while to cycle through the focus range. The less time it takes to reach focus, the more likely it is the bird is still going to be on the focus point and let you take the photo. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 15:05 | comment | added | that_raspberry_pi_guy | I will be having another go at shooting birds this week so I will definitely give the single point af a try. | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 0:08 | comment | added | JerryTheC | ... I suggest checking the manual - if how it decides to choose what to focus on with multiple points active fits what you want to do, fine. But for most of what I do, a single steerable point works fine for me (You may decide differently...) | |
| Aug 25, 2017 at 0:07 | comment | added | JerryTheC | My D300 has a choice of manual, single, or continuous AF (next to the lens mount) and another option for selecting which focus points are active). I usually keep it set to single AF and to use a single (but changeable) focus point - I prefer to keep control of where it's trying to focus on. With multiple points active, there's a chance it's either going to focus on something in the foreground or something in the background rather than what I want it to (the bird)... | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 13:40 | comment | added | that_raspberry_pi_guy | If I put the camera in AF-A mode would this be a good compromise or should I steer clear of that mode? @JerryTheC | |
| Aug 23, 2017 at 23:06 | history | answered | JerryTheC | CC BY-SA 3.0 |