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From a week ago; a Grackle, one of many, searching the grass.
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what a beaut!
Very well done!
Beautiful Grackle, nice photo Steven.
Good looking grackle, Steven.
Nice looking bird
Steven, love the play of light on the plumage. That beady eye looks to be difficult to get into focus the same way or strarlings' eyes confuse the autofocus!
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Thanks Elsa!
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Thank you, Louis!
Thanks much, Ira!
Nice looking bird, good shot!
Thanks, Kirk.
A bit of direct light would have really lit up those phosphorescent colours, but agreed they are beautiful.
Thanks much Caille. Fuller light would have truly lit this guy's colours up, but a beauty agreed. I don't recall if AF had difficulty finding the eye -- bird eye detect would have been engaged; and I often hit a function key to use single point tho also don't remember if I did that in this very very short encounter. I'll be seeing a lot of these birds in the next few weeks, I'm going to specifically 'test' your thesis on the AF confusion with such eyes!
Thank you, Mike.
Steven - I do not shoot Z, so the autofocus on the DSLR's, though good, apparently does not come close the the Z-system.
Swet shot Steven!
The Z9's AF is amazing, but it ain't magically perfect. Tho my very limited understanding of the difference of the systems is that the Z shouldn't be 'fooled' by the colour differences and in fact with this bird the eye is likely going to be more 'obvious' to the AF. Still, I'm going pay attention closely next time I'm out. I'm such a sloppy technical shooter (e.g. continually forget to worry about the AF spot being where I hope it goes before firing the shutter
); good exercise to slow down and think!
Thanks, George.