Birds Remote-control with bird-eye focus

[lodbrok]

Tested out remote-control with bird-eye focus today with great sucsess! I sat up My A7 IV with wide focus - birdeye - AF with shutter on. Aperatur mode with ISO 640 and my 55mm F 1,8 to F4. Will try to nail a sparrow-hawk which like to land on this tree-stub now and then.. I half press the shutter on the remote to engage focus and fire away with electronic shutter. Burstmode medium. Then I sat down in my greenhouse in a very comfortable chair and camuflaged the windows. Like a hide so to speak. As you see in these 3 shots there is the test-'bird' and the full non-cropped and the final crop. Bird-eye locked on to the eye on the wooden tit in a split second!

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 55mm F1.8 ZA
• 55.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 640

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 55mm F1.8 ZA
• 55.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 640

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 55mm F1.8 ZA
• 55.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/800 sec
• ISO 640

 

[lodbrok]

Is it cold there? The bird looks a little stiff in that last shot, is he frozen?

Nice shots!

thanks Tim! Yeah the tit was very helpful with posing.

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Pretty impressive to be fair. It's still cheating

 

[lodbrok]

Pretty impressive to be fair. It's still cheating

Thanks Kev! I know and I love it.

 

[spudhead]

Is it cold there? The bird looks a little stiff in that last shot, is he frozen?

Nice shots!

looks more wooden to me Tim, it should not be hard to get eye focus on that one its not like it is going to blink

 

[lodbrok]

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 55mm F1.8 ZA
• 55.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 250

 

[lodbrok]

No luck on the sparrow-hawk today yust a magpie drop in.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 55mm F1.8 ZA
• 55.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 800

 

[spudhead]

I do not have eye focus on my a9 but you can easily achieve with correct focusing hand held 200-600 and 1.4x

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 200–600 mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G) + 1.4X Teleconverter (SEL14TC)
• 840.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 3200

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 200–600 mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G) + 1.4X Teleconverter (SEL14TC)
• 840.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 3200

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 200–600 mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G) + 1.4X Teleconverter (SEL14TC)
• 840.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 3200

 

[lodbrok]

All the shots in this thread is done by remote-control where the birdeye focus is the key-factor,otherwize you have to manualy focus on a spot and widen the aperatur and hope for the best like with the A9.