Capturing Images of your Various Motile Birds with an Olympus E 330 and 70-300

Crumby’s current, bird documentation, camera combo is the above. As a bird in flight (bif) combo it is next to useless for any but the most mundane documentation photos (see golden crowned kinglet below). But with a little help from Jasc PSP, an average amateur photographer can get a picture of a walking bird (wb). Course to snap such a picture in the first place you have to use manual focus. Autofocus does not actually work on Olympus cameras, not SAF, much less CAF.

Hold it. Sometimes SAF works. But only when the lens is aimed below the horizontal. If the lens is inclined above the horizontal, that’s when autofocus never works. Yet another reason to purchase mainstream camera equipment from a reliable, big name company as opposed to a pipsqueak company.

Praise the Goddess, the 60D should be here pretty soon. Crumby managed to borrow a portrait lens to test his new camera out with once it finally arrives. Then Crumby shall need to decide how much of the Olympus equipment to let go and replace with Canon gear. Crumby is a little misty-eyed wrt to his Sigma 150mm macro. But to continue to use it he would need to upgrade to a 12.3 megapixel, sensor Olympus camera costing a minimum of four hundred or so bucks. The new camera would still suck on cloudy or windy days though. Mercy!

Here’s what Crumby needs to go with his new 60D. Crumby needs a 10-22mm and a 400mm 5.6. Then, if he shucks his current macro gear,(Sigma 150 and Oly 35), he would also need replacements for that. In Canon mount there is every kind of macro lens an average amateur photographer could desire. And nearly every one of them is can’t miss good.