View single post by Graham Whistler

Posted: Thu May 21st, 2015 13:14

Joined:	Sat Apr 14th, 2012
Location:	Fareham, United Kingdom
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Well done Eric I shall follow this with great interest. As you say I have used the single point system since I had Nikon Auto focus and for 99% of the time it has been spot on but with Macro work I still find manual focus works better for me.

Now I am semi retired I have more time to explore new areas and hence my recent interest in bird photography. I find that even on the ground or wading in water they move all the time and single point does not always give you pin sharp.Birds in the air: I am still a long way off knowing what to do!!! Now I have changed to 11 point it is working better. Maybe it is just that my skill level is going up as I spend more time at it?

Sadly the Nikon D810 instruction book even after reading all bits on auto focus has not been much help. Another retired pro photographer in our local camera club also has 810 but like me know that single point works best for most static subjects but told me to try 11 point thinking it may work better.

I am learning but any help from any of our dslr.net Forum friends please would be great?

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Graham Whistler