{"id":27501,"date":"2012-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnandrewwright.com\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2021-12-05T09:26:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T08:26:56","slug":"afternoon-at-oe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/afternoon-at-oe\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon at Oe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I spent the afternoon at Oe wetlands, putting the new 1D X through some paces and testing out the different metering and AF options.<\/p>\n

I tried the spot AF linked to AF point setting, but this didn’t work out too well so I reverted back to the default metering setting and just dialed in compensation as per usual.<\/p>\n

I tried various AF point selection modes, usually using one of the two AF expansion options, but also just the single point AF and also spot AF.<\/p>\n

As I am often shooting with a foreground in the frame, the 61-point AF mode is not that useful, as it tends to focus on the closest thing in the image.<\/p>\n

So basically there is no “magic bullet” for AF – you need to change it depending on the situation for the best results just like on the 7D. I always leave the camera in Ai Servo focus mode and High Speed frame advance mode, as I have customized the camera to only AF if the rear AF-On button is pressed.<\/p>\n

Happily there were quite a few different subjects around yesterday afternoon, with each requiring a different approach. That said, I used Tv and Auto ISO the whole time, as I wanted to be ready for any raptors suddenly appearing.I’ll be out testing the camera again all day tomorrow – the forecast is cloudy and rainy!<\/p>\n

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Yesterday I spent the afternoon at Oe wetlands, putting the new 1D X through some paces and testing out the different metering and AF options. I tried the spot AF linked to AF point setting, but this didn’t work out too well so I reverted back to the default metering setting and just dialed in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2150916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[875,1077,724,1053,2348,1403],"class_list":["post-27501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-common-kingfisher","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-marsh-harrier","tag-northern-goshawk","tag-ruddy-breasted-crake","tag-smew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2150916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}