Gianfranco Irlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Pål Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Alan wrote:
>>>
>>> My Z-1p has fast AF, just that the AF tracking sucks.
>>
>> I don't agree :-)
>> The AF is fast allright and tracking is good if somwhat jerky.
>> Its the locking onto subjects that sucks.
>> Actually, I don't find the MZ-S to offer that much better AF
>> than the Z-1p. The main diference is the number of AF points.
>> The predictive AF of the Z-1p is indeed very good. If you only
>> use the viewfinder as test then it indeed seem to suck. I never
>> forget how sweared at the Z-1p for being unable to track that
>> swimming duck that filled the frame. But guess what; every
>>single frame turned out tack sharp.
>
>It happened the same to me. I seldom shot moving subjects, but
>once I had to shot a running man using the MZ-5n. I was almost
>sure to have shot a sequence of out of focus frames.
>But when I saw the pictures I couldn't believe it: they were all
>perfectly in focus...
Same thing with the superbike races I shot last weekend. I expected half of them
to be out of focus based on what I saw in the viewfinder (when the mirror
returned after the exposure, I realized in retrospect). Vertually all of them
were in perfect focus and those bikes were moving *fast*.
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