A few minutes in my parents back garden this afternoon provided an opportunity to try the 40D at higher ISO levels than I would normally use. The low light levels deep into this hawthorn hedge, while shooting into the fading sun were providing around 1/80sec at ISO800 f6.3 (300 f2.8 + 2x) which allowed the following...
Not a complete failure, and certainly for smaller prints quite acceptable, but the success rate with such flighty birds at the low shutter speeds was obviously lower than I might have liked. The family of long tailed tits seemed to frequent the garden around the feeders on a regular basis, with the juveniles not as willing to feed themselves as they should be!
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