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The idea sounds attractive Sean, but in practice it isn't so good.
The problem is you either use manual focus and pre-focus on a particular spot or set up servo autofocus on a particular spot. Due to the way these little birds continually flit and hop about you'll find it extremely frustrating that they're seldom where you want 'em to be, although when you do get a result it tends to be good. Use the smallest aperture you can get away with which gives you a fast enough shutter speed, to give yourself enough DOF which will be very shallow at close distances.
If it was that easy I'd be using this system all the time.
Where it would probably work very well is with a feeder set up where the bird is tied to using a perch to feed and you know where he'll be, but feeder shots never look as good as shots in a more natural setting.
The problem is you either use manual focus and pre-focus on a particular spot or set up servo autofocus on a particular spot. Due to the way these little birds continually flit and hop about you'll find it extremely frustrating that they're seldom where you want 'em to be, although when you do get a result it tends to be good. Use the smallest aperture you can get away with which gives you a fast enough shutter speed, to give yourself enough DOF which will be very shallow at close distances.
If it was that easy I'd be using this system all the time.
Where it would probably work very well is with a feeder set up where the bird is tied to using a perch to feed and you know where he'll be, but feeder shots never look as good as shots in a more natural setting.