Just like Arthur Dent and Thursdays, I’ve never really gotten the hang of autofocus. I think that I’ve pretty much bludgeoned autoexposure into something resembling submission, but getting my camera to autofocus correctly, on what I want it to is at best a stochastic exercise.
On my K100, K20 and K-x I just gave up and installed Katzeye screens and mostly did manual focus, and because of the way the katzeye worked, that meant I also ended up doing manual exposure as well. Historically, overall, I seem to have had the least bad luck, with it in AF-S mode, selecting a single point, and using the AF button to lock out the autofocus once I thought I had it properly focused, Even so, I get a lot of photos perfectly focused on the microphone in front of a singer, the wrong portion of a bird, the wall behind dancers, or on absolutely nothing at all in the frame. Lately, I’ve been experimenting with AF-C and AF-A (I’m not sure I understand what AF-A is), and things don’t usually seem to be much worse. I’ll also occasionally play with the sel-9 autofocus mode. I realize that different types of photography take different techniques. With static scenes I can fiddle and frotz until I get something that seems to work, but when photographing birds, either in trees or on the wing, I really need some techniques and settings that at least improve my odds of getting a shot in focus. What settings do you use in which situations? -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.