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Hi! I am a 2-week beginner 'bird photo enthusiast' and now using a Sony A6300 with the FE 70-350 lens. I am getting mostly 'fuzzy' when zoomed-in photos of my birds in flight photos and wondering if it's user error (i.e. shaky hands) or some setting issues. I use AF-C, 8 frames/sec, center focus, 'S' at 1/2000, +0.7EV for these two hand-held shot ... just itching to know if it's technique or just the camera needs to be upgraded (always blame the tool! case ...)

Thanks for any advise.

I have similar issue with same lens on A6400. So far not resolved. I'm fairly inexperienced in BIF, so I can't exclude my fault. No problems with sitting birds, happy with image quality of 70-350. I will wait if maybe somebody contribute with ideas or tips.

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Looking at the second image, it seems to me that the reflection of the bird's tail in the water is sharper than the actual bird. That would suggest that the focus is slightly behind where it should be. For this sort of subject, I would have used Zone AF area as the bird is quite large in the frame. By using Centre you may be dropping off the subject and causing it to lose focus. Zone should focus on the nearest thing the that area.

That way you can see where the plane of focus is, and see if that's causing you problems or if it's motion. Looking at the photos myself, I'm also really struggling to see what the origin of the softness is. To me, it seems like motion blur, but 1/2000th should be avoiding that.

Hi Tony. Thanks for the insight .... will try that setting change to 'Balanced Emphasis' as see if that help. Just that I been seeing some many photos on the web of folks with same gear and seemingly razor sharp flying bird photos. I did try up to 1/3200 and never get a tac sharp moving photo ... stationary photos of similar distance subjects are much much sharper. I am still wondering if it's my technique not holding the camera steady enough but I gave up mucking around shooting flying birds with a monopod, was just too restrictive.

Yes, have tried with OSS off too. I just keep getting fuzzy BIFs even when the AF is tracking against a blue sky like the Osprey below. So, it is a little puzzling where the lack of sharpness is coming from. Will wait for better weather and light and try with OSS off, Balance Emphasis and 1/3200 and see if it helps. Yes, it can be a never ending 'arms race, like F1' trying to get better and better images but we are both just trying to get some decent 'tack sharp' birds here LOL

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From your photos I can see that you already give much more effort to BIF than me. I need to crop the image practically allways when shoot such photos. I enjoy shooting birds on branches, fences etc. more, but would like to improve BIF skill in time. Unfortunately not much time in last months available. I will check my BIF photos when at home, and share to see if it's exactly same issue at me.

I just checked your photos and my BIFs on big screen. My issue seems more like that I need to crop a lot and consequently photos are not tack sharp as I would like. But sitting birds I crop in the same way with better results, so I'm not sure.

Looks to me like the camera was focusing on the area (centre) that you chose. So in the first image the focus appears to be on the more distant wing, and in the second, it is on the sea surface behind the bird. With this camera (no tracking focus area modes), you would (in my opinion) better off using Wide focus area for this type of photography. A shutter speed of 1/2000 is perfectly adequate to capture sharp images of slow-flying birds like these cormorants.

I had tried wide focus area and see the AF mini boxes molesting the bird in tracking and shooting but still not tack sharp at 1/2000. Is the fuzziness noise or slight out of focus? I am 'disturbed' by so many seemingly tack crystal clear images on this forum of flying birds at similar distance on 24M sensors LOL

OK - had a chance to 'borrow' an A9 from a buddy and immediately my seagulls (that's the only birds flying around late this arvo hhh) are much sharper with my same 70-350 lens (in APS-C crop mode). I suspect either my settings with the A6300 is all wrong for BIF or the A9 just focuses much much better from 'factory reset' > Speed priority > Zone and fire away ....

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