Canon Telephoto Lenses - Focus Preset
Lance goes through how he uses the focus preset on a canon super telephoto lens to get the best out of his hide photography sessions.
This simple, but underused tool, greatly decreases the amount of times the camera misses focus due to the large distance between the small subject and the far away background, meaning his keeping rate is significantly higher.
Lance uses this technique not only in photographic hides, such as this one, but also in various other wildlife photography scenarios.
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#wildlifephotography #Canon400mmf/2.8 #camerasettings
0:00 - Pretty stuff
0:25 - Introduction
1:10 - Why we use them
2:49 - Where its located
3:35 - How to set single distance
5:25 - Rudely interrupted
6:58 - How to set two distances
10:02 - Wrap up
Пікірлер: 18
Super useful tip, especially for hide photography!
@PantheraPhotoSafaris
Жыл бұрын
Pleasure! Its great for those pesky trees who always want their photo taken!
Really useful. I'm heading to a hide in the UK to photograph Kingfishers next week and this is exactly what I was looking for. I don't use my 500mm f4 to anywhere near its full potential. Thank you :)
@PantheraPhotoSafaris
2 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Hovering and egypten geese 😍
@PantheraPhotoSafaris
Жыл бұрын
Those geese were 100% hovering!
I wish they would update the firmware on the series II lenses to have the dual presets. That would be killer on my 500 f/4 II. Especially since they never made a series III version of that one. I guess I'll have to save up for the RF600 at this point... perhaps 8 years from now... LOL
@PantheraPhotoSafaris
Жыл бұрын
It sure would! It's very sad when simple things like this aren't considered. RF600 would be a dream!
That is some beautiful bird watching place! Thanks for explanation...first day of using 200-400mm f4 and was not really sure what this means. Instead of googling I knew someone on KZread would explain it perfectly. Just wondering, are you using back button focus? Thanks again! God bless you!
@PantheraPhotoSafaris
2 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes I use back button focus! On my canon mirrorless bodies I actually use 3 back buttons simultaneously!
Thanks for explaining the feature! But is it suppose to save the last setting ? Or do you need to set it again every session?
@PantheraPhotoSafaris
Жыл бұрын
Hello. If your camera turns off it will unfortunately reset....but if it just sleeps it will remember it (at least in my cameras, it may differ with other brands).
@greentea3056
Жыл бұрын
@@PantheraPhotoSafaris Thanks so much! I was so worried that my lens was faulty!
Great...execuse me, this lent is a canon EF 300 2.8? Thanks
@PantheraPhotoSafaris
27 күн бұрын
Hello there. This is an RF 400 f2.8
Majority cant afford such lenses anyways. I think already im spoiled with a RF 800 F11 xD
@PantheraPhotoSafaris
Жыл бұрын
This is very true. We are seeing a greater increase of clients renting long lenses for their "once a year" type safaris :)
@harrison00xXx
Жыл бұрын
It make anyways much more sense for something like once a year safaris, but when it comes to the hobby birder like me for example… you just need to OWN THE LENSES. You cant just rent the same lens every few weeks And what i know, the only really affordable stuff is pretty much a few lenses for each system. At canon there are more and more 100-400 II affordable, i tried to replace the 150-600 sigma with it but somehow i own now both and dont want to give away any of them lol The 100-400II is very awesome for video, macro and on full frame, but also sharp enough for APS-C at open aperture as a nice allrounder telezoom But the 200mm extra reach of the sigma are in overall just awesome, the F6.3, often used at F8 and the heavy weight are mainly the reasons i use nowadays often the 100-400 over the sigma