Young Black Skimmer bank shot

[Isaac Grant]

Nobody, including Arash got flight images like this using the 5d4 that i have seen posted.

Why is the statement absurd? I dont’t get it. It is 100% accurate. Center and surrounding points do not track, they onky hold focus and require the operator to keep the bird dead center and in one of the 1, 5, or 9 points. While in zone that is not the case at all and the camera tracks and follows the subject.

[Arthur Morris]

Nobody, including Arash got flight images like this using the 5d4 that i have seen posted.

Why is the statement absurd? I don’t get it. It is 100% accurate. Center and surrounding points do not track, they onky hold focus and require the operator to keep the bird dead center and in one of the 1, 5, or 9 points. While in zone that is not the case at all and the camera tracks and follows the subject.

#1: I have made many good flight images with my 5D Mark IV. LMK if you would like me to post a few here.

#2: Do check out Bryan Halliday's spectacular pintail created with the 5D Mark IV in the Canon Surely Does Not Suck: Part II of Many blog post here.

#2: Here is what you wrote,

Interestingly I had a long conversation with one of the Canon executives at the photo expo in Manhattan last week about Canon autofocus and how it compares to Nikon for bird applications. Also about the settings to use for tracking. He said and confirmed what I have always thought that for all tracking, the Canon cameras are designed to only track on full center zone or full zone. The camera does not track using center point, center and four surrounding or center and 8 surrounding.

The statement is patently absurd. If it were at all true, then all images of all moving subjects made with Canon cameras would be unsharp. We can start with Dorian's fine image here and then continue on to tens of thousands of sharp images or moving subjects made with Canon gear. Please do not tell me that he was referring to this or that or something else. His statement as quoted above is absurd.

with love, artie