Best Camera Settings for Birds in Flight.

In this video, I advise on the best settings for capturing birds in flight. I'm using the new "bird-eye detect" feature recently introduced to the Nikon Z8. WOW!

Last week, I visited Bempton Cliffs to try out my Nikon Z8 on birds in flight. It was my first time trying out the "bird-eye detect" recently introduced to Nikon's menu.

Focusing: When photographing fast-moving military aircraft flying through the Welsh mountains known as the Mach Loop, I tend to mix the focus settings. I combine Nikon's incredible 3D mode and aircraft detect mode. Shooting birds, on the other hand, seems to be much easier.

I was expecting to be dithering around trying to find the best combination of focus modes when, in fact, the best mode was precisely what it said on the tin! Camera to AFC (Constant focusing) and then selecting the "bird-eye-detect".

Disclaimer: My channel is sponsored by Nikon, so I can understand why you would think this is nothing but PR for Nikon, but it really isn't. The Bird Detect was pretty much faultless.

Every now and again, the focus would jump from one bird to another when the focus area became busy with birds, but that happened rarely.

My biggest headache from the trip was the amount of sharp images I had to trawl through. But that's not a bad problem to have, I guess!

I hope you enjoy the video.

Gary

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