I use a single focus point in the center and AF-S. I focus and keep the button half pressed and compose the shot. Manual focus only if the model is posing in the bushes and with macro.
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 04:26, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > 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. -- %(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.
