This means that you can press the shutter button but your camera will not begin the exposure until focus is locked. The first is to take a picture only when focus is achieved. With this setting you can tell your camera when to take a picture when autofocusing. In the Nikon world its A1 in the custom settings.
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Refer to your camera’s manual to find it. This setting will be deep in your camera’s menu. When shooting any moving objects, especially birds in flight, you will want the autofocus to be continually working for you. You want to be on continuous autofocus mode (AF-C). If you wan’t to make your files even smaller, you could turn on crop mode (or DX-mode in the Nikon world) if your camera allows it. This will let me crop in more if I need to later.
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Personally, I shoot at the full 46MP of Large RAW. This would be a good option if you want smaller files. Large RAW files are the full 46MP of the sensor, Medium RAW files are 26MP, and Small RAW files are 11MP. My D850 can shoot Large RAW, Medium RAW, and Small RAW if I choose to. This will give you smaller files so your camera can clear it’s buffer quicker. For birds, I would suggest using 12-bit RAW and turning on compression (lossless compression if possible). This is true for any type of photography that I do. I always shoot in RAW for more freedom in post processing. Here are more details on all the birds in flight camera settings listed above including why I chose what I did.
So all these settings that I have laid out here will be applicable to you no matter what you shoot with. However all of these settings are universal no matter what camera you have. Please note that this post refers to certain settings as Nikon calls them (DX for crop mode, Dynamic Area AF, etc.). Here are my basic camera settings when photographing birds. Those things would be positioning, light, knowing bird behavior, panning technique, etc. If you set up your camera properly, you can then take more time to focus on (no pun intended 🙂 ) what really makes a great bird photos. So I believe sharing the settings I use might help others get their camera settings ready for birds in flight. Although I am not claiming to be an expert on the subject, I do understand cameras and know how they work. If you look around the internet you’ll find far more talented photographers with most likely far better advice. I am admittedly quite a novice when it comes to bird photography. I wrote this post in order to help others have all the basic camera settings that are useful for birds in flight photography. I took that info and made a reference that I used. The good news is that I was able to gather all the necessary basic information in bits and pieces. I found people in certain forums who would ask for money in exchange to simple camera settings. I found it extremely difficult to find information all layed out in front of me that would help me with my birds in flight camera settings. My first foray in to bird photography began a few years ago.
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