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Subject: [Leica] Bird Eye AF
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 20:35:31 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Yes these are using my backward blind.  Ordinarily I mow all the grasses 
down to a minimum level for flammable vegetation control but I deliberately 
allowed the grasses to grow in a little patch behind the birdbath to get 
some greenery in the background.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>Sent: Apr 10, 2021 8:21 PM
>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Bird Eye AF
>
>Sure works for those shots.? Backyard blind?? I especially like the 
>second one.
>
>On 4/10/21 10:09 PM, Douglas Herr via LUG wrote:
>> For those of you who have been following some of the recent developments 
>> in mirrorless cameras, I can report that the Sony alpha 1's bird eye AF 
>> (BEAF) works quite well.  Warblers are among the jumpiest of birds and 
>> the camera's BEAF had very little trouble keeping the focus on the bird's 
>> eye, even when the bird was partially obscured by foreground foliage.  
>> The only problems it had were when the bird took and extended bath with 
>> much splashing.
>>
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/parulidae/setophaga/coronata/setcor27.html
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/parulidae/setophaga/coronata/setcor28.html
>>
>> Doug Herr
>> Birdman of Sacramento
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>>
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>Jim Nichols
>Tullahoma, TN USA
>
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