This video footage of a European Robin Erithacus rubecula was obtained using a SLR camera on live-view so there wasn't too much depth of field available when making this film. The light was poor so an auto-ISO setting was required in the gloom. Auto-focussing systems appear to have difficulty in holding focus on orange feathers for some reason so it was necessary to use manual focussing on this very obliging little bird as he posed right in front of a 105mm macro lens and sang to the photographer. For this reason there are parts of the film in which it has not been possible to maintain sharp focus on the bird's eyes. Nevertheless his behaviour may be observed from an absurdly close range for a bird that the photographer had first encountered only eleven days before these images were captured.