Larry Colen wrote:
I've seen reports, which I believe, that autofocus consistently
outperforms manual focus.
About speed, yes, about precision, it depends on many variables...
The problem being that it focuses perfectly on the wrong thing.
Sometimes, I'd add. I (and you too, I believe) have several pictures proving
it can also focus on the right thing.
I've found that live view, especially with zoom, allows me to focus in
light that is beyond the ability for either unassisted, or autofocus.
Unfortunately, the K-5 takes about a fortnight to actually take the shot
after pressing the shutter, when in liveview. My suspicion is that
somebody did some embedded systems programming when all they know is
writing Java for desktop computers.
When the scene is fairly static, I pop it into LV, manually focus, then
pop it out of live view. Unfortunately, if I've taken any photos,
pressing the LV button will freeze the camera up until everything has been
written from buffer into memory (see note above about embedded systems
programming). The K-5 is an amazing camera, and in many ways the one
that I've been waiting to be affordable for years, or decades, but there
are so many things about the software that are simply braindead. Almost
every complaint I have about it is with the software. Give me access to
the source code and a couple of months and I could give you a camera that
is damned near perfect.
Maybe you could talk to your special friends at Pentax and we could get
those issues fixed.
Sorry, not special enough, I'm afraid. In order to (hope to) influence such
'sensible' matter, I should be in close contact with Japanese designers or
high-level executives, which is not the case.
Dario
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