On Dec 6, 2009, at 2:50 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: David Mann >> Following on from the galleries I posted yesterday. The City Criterium is >> ridden around a short (approx. 1km) loop around a scenic >> section of the Avon River. > > #12 - the guy in second place to the right is LOAFING. > >> I had to cut a lot of photos due to focus problems. I want eye >> controlled AF and a bigger viewfinder. I will repeat that I want a >> feature where the body can remember the AF point separately for >> portrait and landscape orientations. No idea if the K20D or K-7 have >> this feature. I'm afraid to look as I'd have to spend money :) > > I remember Pentax advertising TRAP FOCUS on their AF film cameras. Set the > focus and the shutter fires when something comes into focus. > > I know you can do it manually with the *ist-D and K10D. Auto-focus on a fixed > point, switch focus to manual leaving the lens focused at that distance and > trip the shutter using calibrated Mark 1 eye-ball. > > I use that a lot instead of continuous auto-focus, because Pentax CAF is > SLOOOOOOOOoooooow. > > Almost as slow as the savings fund I started to buy a K20D is been growing. > > I hear the K7 is faster, but it's probably going to be a while before I get > to find out for myself. The way things are going, I'll be lucky to have > enough saved by the time whatever follows the the K7 is available ... if not > the one after that. >
Continuous autofocus on the K7 is quite good. I used it a lot shooting pee-wee soccer and t-ball. Paul > -- > 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.
