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Old 16-05-17, 18:00
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Thank you Trena. It took about 4hrs with a reasonable supply of squirrels although they did have a tendency to try and sneak up onto the stump with the nut on rather than jump for it. I was pretty sure I wouldn't be able to track the jump and wasn't at all sure the autofocus would keep up even if I could so I opted for a different approach.
The jump was about 14 inches and the squirrels crossed that distance in about 1/4 of a second.
The camera was tripod mounted with my 35-100 f2 lens at a range of about 8ft from the take off point. Camera was set to shutter priority with a shutter speed of 1/2000th which gave about f2.2 I then set a bamboo cane in the ground with a business card wedged in the top at the desired focus point and manually focused the camera before removing the cane - then wait for your squirrel and hope your reactions are fast enough. Even then the chance of getting a frame at exactly the right point was only achieved by setting my frame rate to the max 60fps
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