[Leica] IMG: tiny birdies

[Jim Nichols]

Doug, you certainly proved it works.  I love the third one, apparently 
speaking to the world.

On 4/21/21 8:57 AM, Douglas Herr via LUG wrote:
> Yesterday morning I took the a1 & 600 GM to a nearby floodplain & found a spot with a couple of semi-cooperative birds, a Bewick's Wren and a Bushtit.  These are both very small birds, denizens of dense brush and practically the definition of hyperactive.  A good test of bird eye AF.
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> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/troglodytidae/thryomanes/bewickii/thrbew16.html
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/troglodytidae/thryomanes/bewickii/thrbew17.html
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/troglodytidae/thryomanes/bewickii/thrbew19.html
>
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/aegithalidae/psaltriparus/minimus/psamin10.html
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/aegithalidae/psaltriparus/minimus/psamin11.html
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/aegithalidae/psaltriparus/minimus/psamin12.html
>
> Even when the bird was partly obscured by leaves & twigs and in deep shadow the camera had little trouble locking onto the bird and as long as the eye wasn't obscured it locked onto the eye.  Distant birds occupying a very small part of the image area were likewise no problem.  The AF locked onto the bird's head, if not the eye.  The Bird Eye AF's response: "nice warmup, but is that all you've got?"
>
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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Jim Nichols
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