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Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: Jonathan Cross on July 22, 2012, 08:21:05 am

Title: Canon 5D MKIII for wildlife
Post by: Jonathan Cross on July 22, 2012, 08:21:05 am

I have upgraded my Canon 5D mkII  for a 5D mkIII and am getting to grips with the AF.  What AF settings are folks using for wildlife, particularly birds both on the ground/water and in the air?  Any advice would be appreciated.

Jonathan

Title: Re: Canon 5D MKIII for wildlife
Post by: stever on July 22, 2012, 10:18:05 am

there are some very good resources and some advice in the Autofocus Choices thread

there are some recommendations in the eos-1Dx Autofocus Guide

from my experience with the 7D and having read this and some of the other souces, i think the single point and one of the point expansions (don't know how much difference it makes) combined with lowish tracking sensitivity, highish accel/decel, and lowish point switching is a reasonable start

Art Morris points out that for flocks you want to use all points to get the nearest bird in focus.  He is offering a setup guide for $40 which has some discussion of the choices