Tim and Graydon, Are you guys using screw drive lenses of the newer SDM type? Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Graydon <o...@uniserve.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:39:38AM +0200, Tim Øsleby scripsit: >> I'm pretty sure it has an impact on AF. >> >> Yesterday was waiting for a White-throated Dipper. While waiting I >> played a bit with the AF at the stream. No way I could get the damn >> thing to lock except when trying at some rocks. After wards I did the >> upgrade. >> >> Today I sat by the same river, with same lens, at exactly same spot. >> The light was very similar. When retesting, it focused just as we >> should expect it to do. Every time I tried it focused, and it did >> pretty fast to. Impressive :-) > > Yup. > > Historical "point camera at flying gull in a bright sky" lock rate has > been about one in five. Today's 20 gulls all locked. Most of the > vulture and hawk attempts locked, too. > > Focus confirmation with the 1.03 firmware is also much, much faster. > > No idea what, if anything, it did to anti-shake, but the auto-focus > improvement is substantial. > > -- Graydon > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
