I took the RepTrap out for another round. I got 80+ Images of birds in total in 11h! I can't wait to use the new sensor version with the beautifull enclosure which will make it also much easier to attach the sensor somewhere. I used ropes and wires to attach it but it was terrible.

Lets talk about the camera settings! 

I used my Nikon D7100 with a Sigma 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3. For the sensor and the camera to work nice and fast it is best to set everything to manual. The sensor does trigger the focus as well but in most cases it takes too long to take an image with. Also the shutter should be done as fast as possible to get nice and sharp images.

• Nikon D7100
• Sigma 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3
• I used ~170mm for a good compoistion
• aperture 6 to increase the focus area. I also tried 8 and 11. 

One very nice feature of this sensor is the detection area which is like a wall! It basically represents the depth of field of the camera. You can set the focus of the camera to this exact "wall" and everything which will break the wall will get detected within the depth of field and end up sharply on the image later. I think that is a big plus.

Here are some of my 80+ images I took