Nice shots. You have a very big DOF, which also helps. I am shooting sports with the programline for highest shutterspeed, so lowest DOF. With a lens like mine at 150mm that is still f6.7, I am curious what the new f4 60-250mm lens will give for results in actual use.
You have made me curious to find out how the *istD and K10D behave also in continous drive mode, which gives the AF system not much time to maintain focus. Perhaps pick a bicycle rider and make the 5 consecutive shots you asked for, and do this for both cameras. And also compare this with single drive mode results. I wish the mail man would stop by and hand me my K10D. Frits Wüthrich On Thursday 28 December 2006 09:47, Jens Bladt wrote: > For these shots I used Auto Selection of focus points. > Because the boys were a bit away from me, it worked surprisingly well (the > distance beteen me and the boys didn't change much): > http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/sets/72157594200497565/show/ > The four soccer-shots were taken within 2-3 seconds (according to the the > EXIF-data) between 19:35:10 and 19:35:12, July 15th 2006). > Regards > > 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 > Jens Bladt > Sendt: 28. december 2006 09:25 > Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Emne: RE: *istD AF > > > Yes, so it seems. Only in the PDF-manaul this is page 72. > So, what does it do, when the subject is fixed and YOU move the CAMERA? > > It may work fine in theory. But in the real world, the images rarely turn > out sharp, if the subject is moving. I can say this because I used this > camera close to every day for 28 months, releasing the shutter appr. 45000 > times. > Perhaps the micro chip can cope (which I doubt), but the speed of the whole > system is still slow compared to the mayor players in the high end DSLR > segment. > > To me this is not very important, since I don't do sports photography > (perhaps the camera limitations are the real reason for this). When I shoot > images like these I use manual focus, because I can't release the shutter > at the decisive moment if I use AF: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/sets/72057594101295335/show/ > > For pro photographers this is obviously a major issue, since they tend to > choose faster cameras. > I plan to buy a K10D anyway, regardsless that it is using the same old > (2003) SAFOX VIII system. > Obviously the speed is is not a huge priority for Pentax. Luckily it's the > same for me. > > Regards > 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 23:14 > Til: pdml@pdml.net > Emne: Re: *istD AF > > > Taken from the *istD manual page 74: > " > The camera switches to predictive AF mode automatically when a moving > subject > is detected in AF.C (Continous mode). > " > > Frits Wüthrich > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
