Nikon D5300 AF Focus Points Question

[photo_chick]

It's died down in recent years since CIPA came up with an IS/VR testing standard and there is at least some measure of objective data, and also with m43 and even Nikon CX entering the fray and exaggerating the differences caused by sensor size.

It's also not helped that if I've had nine cups of coffee I need to be at 1/1000 for a 200 mm lens, while my uncaffeinated self can be at 1/50; or that each person's definition of acceptable camera shake is slightly different, with some people hand-holding landscape shots while others are on carbon fiber tripods with ball head the size of a grapefruit and a sack of bricks slung underneath, and not extending the legs at all, and still seem to get camera shake somehow, and are wishing they could haul an anvil with a vise into the woods with them (ignoring the fact that by this point they could have lugged an 8x10 view camera and wooden tripod).

I lug a 4x5 on a carbon fiber tripod.

 

[SkaGoat]

All,

I apologize for my lack of interaction. Life gets in the way sometimes.

I'd like to thank you for your great suggestions all of which are true and will get corrected over time. The best of which will require me to check out the different auto focus settings: AF-S vs AF-C. Obviously I've got something that's not working and it's photographer error.

I wasn't sure if the photo linked properly from the Google Photo but it seems some of you were able to view it. For others, here's a link to my photobucket album:

I appreciate everyone's contribution.

Keep making pictures!

Colby

To my eye it's camera shake.

 

[Geoff_M]

To my eye it's camera shake.

It could be, but we'd need to see a tight crop of the cardinal's head to be sure.

 

[jec6613]

It could be, but we'd need to see a tight crop of the cardinal's head to be sure.

The shake I'm seeing is more like what I get sometimes when I leave VR on despite sufficiently high shutter speeds. Oh, and the bird may have moved, too, in 1/160.

One thing is certain: little 4" tall birds are one of the most annoyingly difficult photographic subjects, and you can never get enough glass on them.

 

[elmoandzoey]

It could be, but we'd need to see a tight crop of the cardinal's head to be sure.

You can zoom in and have it displayed 100% on Photobucket. Looking at the grass in the background, I am seeing double stalks. So either it was very windy or there was slight camera shakre. I am also seeing oval shapes in the ground which should be circular to begin with. Since the ground isn't supposed to move, I'd say camera shake. And maybe the little birdy moved as well