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An hour ago I shot a cormorant flying by my apartment. I can report that it found the head better than any other camera I have shot with, including the R6m2. I have shot a lot of cormorants from home, flying by (the birds, not me
). Done it for years. And all cameras struggled with them and often missed the head. The R6 and R6m2 mostly found the body and then you often get soft heads. Well, not today. I was amazed to see the little square on the head consistently whilst tracking him.
Here's a shot from the sequence. Light wasn't the best, the bird was underexposed and I had to add quite a bit of light in post but I just wanted to show how well the autofocus did in finding and tracking the head.
Screenshot from DPP. Unprocessed and underexposed. But look where the focus point is. And it was there or thereabouts all the time. A bit to the front, a bit more to the neck, but always on the head. Only at the start of the sequence did it do a full body lock on. Then it switched to this and it stayed like this. I have never seen this before, not with cormorants. They are big, long birds and dark. For the camera to track and stay on the head like this, is amazing.

Here's a shot from the sequence. Light wasn't the best, the bird was underexposed and I had to add quite a bit of light in post but I just wanted to show how well the autofocus did in finding and tracking the head.
Screenshot from DPP. Unprocessed and underexposed. But look where the focus point is. And it was there or thereabouts all the time. A bit to the front, a bit more to the neck, but always on the head. Only at the start of the sequence did it do a full body lock on. Then it switched to this and it stayed like this. I have never seen this before, not with cormorants. They are big, long birds and dark. For the camera to track and stay on the head like this, is amazing.