Birding with Manual Lenses in Park

My initial thought on shooting birds with manual focus lenses was near to impossible especially without stabilization in camera but further attempt proved me wrong. Today I went to KL Bird Park to test out two of my manual vintages which are Minolta MD 75-150mm F/4 and Minolta MD Tele Rokkor 200mm F/4 and the results were out of my expectations.

The usual error that I encountered with my previous autofocus lenses was the backfocus/misfocus issue but today all my shots focused perfectly. The focusing process took me around 3-4 seconds currently but I believe it will be faster in the future.

Birding the in-flight birds is be a bigger challenge for me but it has been my challenge as well when I was using my autofocus lenses in which the lens would hunt for the bird/subject to focus and usually at the end of the day, I did not score the shot well.