{"id":896,"date":"2010-01-17T10:34:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=896"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:24:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:24:46","slug":"san-diego-ipt-mark-iv-and-7d-af-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2010\/01\/17\/san-diego-ipt-mark-iv-and-7d-af-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego IPT; Mark IV and 7D AF Comments&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>California Brown Pelican in flight, La Jolla, CA. Canon 70-200mm f\/4L IS lens (handheld at 154mm) with the 1.4X II TC and the EOS-7D. ISO 500. Evaluative metering +1 1\/3 stops set manually.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>With one day to go, the San Diego IPT has been a huge success.\u00a0 Great folks, great camraderie, great photographic opportunities, great food, and lots of learning.\u00a0 We have been blessed with the right light, the right winds, and the right weather.\u00a0 Keep your eyes peeled for the next BAA Bulletin for a complete report.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is anxious to know my thoughts on AI Servo AF performance with my new cameras:\u00a0 Canon&#8217;s flagship professional body&#8211;the EOS-1D Mark IV, and the top of the line pro-sumer model&#8211;the EOS-7D.\u00a0 AI Servo AF performance in both is\u00a0excellent.\u00a0 When I get the central sensor on the bird&#8217;s eye, face, or head and keep it there, the images are sharp.\u00a0 When I fail to do that, sometimes the images are sharp, and sometimes they are not.\u00a0 My initial impression (as you can plainly see in the Mallard image below) is that the Mark IV is surely the best ever Canon body when it comes to tracking incoming subjects that are rocketing towards you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And two\u00a0things are\u00a0sure: competent photographers will produce excellent flight images with either of these bodies, and excellent flight and action photographers will continue to produce award winning images with either the 7d or the Mark IV.\u00a0 (Do note that when it comes to flight and action I consider myself in the former group, not the latter.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mallard drake incoming, Santee Lakes, CA. Canon 400mm f\/4L DO lens handheld with the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 500. Evaluative metering +1 1\/3 stops: 1\/800 sec. at f\/4 set manually.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>As always, you can click on an\u00a0image to see a larger sharper one.\u00a0\u00a0I am supposed to be in San Diego until next Saturday but with the gloom and doom weather forecast: rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, I am likely to get out of Dodge well before that.\u00a0 I will be back soon with more MIV and 7D images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> ngg_shortcode_2_placeholder California Brown Pelican in flight, La Jolla, CA. Canon 70-200mm f\/4L IS lens (handheld at 154mm) with the 1.4X II TC and the EOS-7D. ISO 500. Evaluative metering +1 1\/3 stops set manually. <\/p>\n<p>With one day to go, the San Diego IPT has been a huge success. Great folks, great camraderie, great photographic [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[89,34,23,8,24,12,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-89","category-70-200mm-f4","category-7d","category-ipt-reports","category-mkiv","category-photo-equipment","category-san-diego-2010","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}