TDC223 wrote:
Just another comment. The 100-400 is a little slow at AF, but mine gets a lot of use for wildlife and I am very happy with it. I do find the AF to be accurate. I shoot a lot of wildlife...birds, bears, and other large game. I try to use the 300L IS and 600L IS, but have the 100-400 on another body close by. I have found the 100-400IS has given me some of my best shots. Just curious....what mode do you shoot and how do you have the camera set up?
Aperture preferred. I've taken focus off of my shutter button and was using back button autofocusing which I like a lot in theory, more control, but it will take practice to feel natural. Center spot metering. I was also considering exposure issues I'd been reading about in some Arthur Morris literature and was experimenting with dialing in some incremental exposure compensation. Probably all this stuff running around in my head, together with the excitement of the moment was not helping my steadiness. Together with forgetting to raise up my glasses when I was looking through my camera's corrected viewfinder, and I wonder now how I got any reasonably acceptable shots at all.