Auto Focus is just for that quick shot, where you just grab your camera and shoot.We as photographers should not be using auto focus. If you look at my photos on my page on Photo.net all my photos are shot with manual focus except the photos that say test under them, that were shot with the 70 - 200 mm Simga lens. Now I understand when someone's eyes are not as good as they used to be, you will tend to use auto focus, but they do make contact lens and the like to improve your eyes. We as photographers and people are getting lazy and not using our brains.Sorry if I offended anyone on the list. I will admit there is times when I try the auto focus, but I go back to manual focus all the time...Joe www.photo.net/photos/pjjdxn
Subject: Re: false focus? My K20D front focused with the FA 50/1.4. I had to adjust the the camera using the menu option for focus fine tuning. Paul On Aug 1, 2009, at 7:45 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > When I was shooting with my pfa-50/1.4 tonight, there were several > times that the camera shot in af-c mode without refocusing, when I > expected it to refocus. > > A lot of the shots with that lens seem to be way out of focus. Are any > lenses particularly prone to tricking the camera into thinking that > they are in focus, when they actually aren't? > > I don't seem to have this problem on other lenses. > > It doesn't seem to be a motion blur issue. > > I was shooting tonight, in raw, in several modes of high iso noise > reduction at ISO 3200. At first glance it doesn't seem to make any > difference, though I'll still have to test more scientifically. > > I got a call from Mark Davis at Pentax today to discuss my > issues. Without looking at my pictures he seemed to think that my > camera sounded like it was performing nominally. After the > conversation, I emailed him the links, with explanations, to my > various test sets, but I haven't heard back. > > A lot of frustrating things may be happening with my camera, many of > them quite likely my doing, but I must commend Pentax, and especially > John C, because they seem to be making every reasonable, and perhaps > even some more than reasonable, effort to resolve the issue. > > On the bright side, I seem to be learning a lot about my camera. > > > -- > The first step is learning to take great photos, > the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
