On Wednesday 27 December 2006 16:47, Jens Bladt wrote: > Very nice photograph - in fact it's excellent! > This was not done with continous AF, was it? Well, at some distance any > photograph is always sharp. Only not necessarily where you wnat it to be. > In my experience the *istD AF/Continuos AF is not fast enough for anything
Yes, I used (predictive) continious AF. But drive mode on single frame, if that is what confuses you. I wait for the decisive moment, rather then take 2.6 frames per second only to find out later I just missed the one shot in between two frames. A faster FPS would be very welcome though. AF-Single or manual doesn't work for me, I am not vary able to focus manualy for action shots. The photo is a crop of a landscape photo, the height is the full height of the land scape frame. Aperture is 6.7, as it can't go larger at a focal length of 150mm. That does give some more DOF, however focus seems to be spot on. > movuing faster than a walking human. I have pointed this out many times on > this list. Other list members allways seem to answer me, that shots like > this must be done using MF. So, in a way they seem to agree - the AF isn't > fast enough for action photography. Alone the slow FPS speed indicates > this. If FPS were sharper the AF would never cope. Perhaps this is what is different between your shooting style and mine. I can imagine there is not much time for focussing after a photograph was made and the next will be made when the camera is in continuos drive mode. > In my understanding the K10D is not really faster than the D. Only write > speed is faster. That was not my impression, but I will see in a few days. > I ma looking forward to hearing about your results in this area. > I wont' be getting my K10D until May 1st. So, I'd like to know. > What I am looking foreward to is better cropablity, faster write speed and > Shake Reduction. Still, faster AF would be very nice. > Regards > Jens > > > Jens Bladt > http://www.jensbladt.dk > +45 56 63 77 11 > +45 23 43 85 77 > Skype: jensbladt248 > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af > Frits Wüthrich > Sendt: 27. december 2006 15:51 > Til: pdml@pdml.net > Emne: *istD AF > > > With the recent discussion in mind that the K10D AF isn't fast enough for > football and American football as we call it in the Netherlands, I wanted > to show a photograph I made of a hockeygame with my *istD on continues > autofocus, using the FA 100-300 f4.5-5.6, a lens not well respected on this > list. This sport is at least as fast as the other ones mentioned, but there > are not many photos that go wrong on focus with this combo as long as there > is enough light. > Take a look at: > http://www.xs4all.nl/~wuthrich/foto/IMGP4879.jpg > It is a matter of following the action with the shutter halfway down till > you > reach the decisive moment. I leave choosing the autofocus point up to the > camera. > > I wonder what my K10D will do for me in this area. It was sent to me on 22 > Dec > from TeKaDe in Germany, it didn't arrive yet, can be any moment now. I need > to start saving for the 60-250 lens. > > -- > Frits Wüthrich > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.28/604 - Release Date: 12/26/2006 > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.28/604 - Release Date: 12/26/2006 -- Frits Wüthrich -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
