Comments on: What Can Pre-Capture Do For You? And How to Use It https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2025/01/08/what-can-pre-capture-do-for-you-and-how-to-use-it/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Sun, 01 Jun 2025 10:19:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2025/01/08/what-can-pre-capture-do-for-you-and-how-to-use-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2509576 Sun, 01 Jun 2025 10:19:06 +0000 https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/?p=92608#comment-2509576 In reply to Casey.

You are welcome. As far as I know, there is nothing in the EXIF or anywhere else that denotes a Pre-Capture image. If you properly have Pre-Capture set to and had the shutter button half-pressed, rest assured that the Pre-Capture images are on the card. You can prove it your yourself in your living room:

1-Format a card.
2-Set the camera to 30 fps.
3-Turn Pre-Capture On and set the time to 1.0 seconds.
4- Focus on something by half pressing the shutter button.
5- Then press the shutter button and release it as quickly as possible, making perhaps five or six images at most.
6- Check and see how many images are on the card; there will be at least 35 or 36.

I would strongly advise joining the a-1 ii group as nearly all the settings for sports photography are the same as they are for bird photography.

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]]> By: Casey https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2025/01/08/what-can-pre-capture-do-for-you-and-how-to-use-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2509062 Sun, 01 Jun 2025 05:30:22 +0000 https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/?p=92608#comment-2509062 Thanks for your explanation on pre-capture. I’m just wondering, and this might be a dumb question, but how do you access the pre-captured images? (for example, I shoot hockey, and have pre-capture set up on my Sony a1ii. However, I can only see the actual photo that I took, and I don’t see anywhere to access the pre-captured (0.3 seconds before or after) the shot that was taken.

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