What are the advantages of EOS-1DX Mark III for shooting birds?

When photographing wild animals and birds, the subjects change instantly, and high-speed professional cameras like 1DX3 have never been good at high pixels, so we need to combine our shooting experience and shooting habits to work hard. Make a reasonable composition, don’t waste the picture, make good use of every pixel, and reduce the cropping of the picture in the later stage. The upgrades in the focus and continuous shooting functions of 1DX3 have brought great help to our shooting. When shooting white-backed sandbirds, the new focusing system can arrange the composition during shooting, ensuring full use of the picture and reducing inconvenience in post-production. Necessary cropping. ?

Brown-headed Bunting, EOS-1D Mark III+EF 600/4L II, F6.3, 1/1250s, ISO 3200

In addition, birds in motion are more energetic, shooting them is more challenging, and the resulting photos are more exciting. , especially the moment of waiting for the bird to take off, the excruciating process is the enjoyment of spiritual experience, just like this brown-headed bunting. In SLR mode, the continuous shooting speed of 1DX3 is as high as 16 frames/second, which can be easily captured at this current SLR limit continuous shooting speed. It can be said that in the process of shooting the flying version, the high-speed continuous shooting of 16 frames per second ensures the freeze-frame of each decomposition action, which is very beneficial for the photographer to grasp the moment

Spot-tailed wood pigeon, EOS-1D X Mark III+EF 600/4L II, F5.6, 1/1250s, ISO 200

Yellow-throated Bee-eater, EOS-1D , ISO 800

According to my past experience, if the camera’s continuous shooting speed is not enough, you need to pause during the continuous shooting of flying birds. The purpose is to prevent the shutter from matching the frequency of the bird flapping its wings. The wings of the flying bird that come out are either fully fanned to the top or fully fanned to the bottom. When I used 1DX3 to shoot spot-tailed wood pigeons, I took a shot and looked back quickly. 1DX3 decomposed all the movements of the flying birds and captured almost every frequency point. This really surprised me.

In this experience, I was also deeply impressed by the video shooting of 1DX3. In the past, when shooting videos with SLR cameras, follow focus was a major shortcoming. It relies on post-production editing, and the 1DX3 I experienced this time uses full-pixel dual-core focus for video shooting, especially for shooting moving birds and animals. Just tap your finger on the screen and the focus will change immediately. It is really convenient.