On Oct 22, 2012, at 6:16 PM, Anthony Farr <farranth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 October 2012 14:30, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: >> 1) Taking photos from a moving pony cart can be challenging. Not so much >> for camera motion blur, which can be compensated for by a fast shutter speed >> combined with shake reduction, but because the bouncing up and down makes it >> very challenging to compose a shot. >> >> 2) This is exacerbated when the sound of the 18-250 focusing sounds to the >> horse like the noise that means "go faster". >> >> 3) Taking photos of a hawk flying overhead from a moving pony cart is nearly >> impossible. >> >> 4) Taking photos of said hawk, when standing on the ground with the 18-250 >> works a lot better with manual focus and a split prism focusing screen than >> it does with auto focus. >> >> -- >> Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est >> > > How autofocus works with sport, action, wildlife, etc: > > "Oh, you want to take a shot right now, do you? Just give me a second > or two while I check my full range of focus, just in case there's a > point where things are sharper. Wait, I'll check again, you can never > be too sure, can you? There, I bet that shot of empty blue sky is > sharper than anything Canon could've made." > > Grrrr! > Don't know what focusing method or lens you're using, but with an SDM lens and single-point autofocus, my camera moves right to the spot. Can't remember last time I experienced that kind of autofocus sawing. Paul > regards, Anthony > > -- > 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.
