I think i have mentioned before, that i rarely us AF C but stick with AF S and use a machine gun type of action on the shutter release, doing my own af c so to speak. It worked very well during my equine action days, so i stuck with it.
Dave On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 7:06 PM, P N Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > Thanks Stan. > I always preselect the focus point. Top point, with the camera in a vertical > position on all of these. Most are in the S mode. A couple were in C mode. > Didn't have much trouble locking in in S mode, so I stuck with it for the > most part, but wanted to try continuous as well. Of course continuous will > allow the shutter to fire even if it's not locked in. (That's the way I have > it set in custom functions. Might change that.) > Paul > > On Nov 6, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: > >> Nice! >> >> What AF setting? Are you pre-selecting the focal point? >> >> stan >> >> On Nov 6, 2010, at 5:51 PM, P N Stenquist wrote: >> >>> The sun warmed things up a bit this afternoon so Grace and I went to the >>> park. I shot a number of action pics. The K-5 seemed to be able to lock in >>> good focus on 7 to 8 tries out of 10. That's considerably better than the >>> K-7, which was somewhat better than the K20D. It didn't nail every shot >>> perfectly -- some included pretty violent motion right at the camera -- but >>> it never left me in the lurch. It always locked in. Results for spot and >>> continuous were similar. Perhaps a slightly higher percentage of misses with >>> continuous. But operator error comes into play here as well, and the sample >>> is still relatively small. But I'm pleased. >>> >>> The first eight pics in this folder are from today. All are action, >>> except the one of Grace sitting on the rail. A noteworthy achievement: she >>> tried to sled down the astroturf hill standing up. First time. Almost made >>> it. >>> >>> http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=643396 >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
