> On 27 Jul 2021, at 05:14, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > >> Many years ago when I was photographing a bunch of blues dancing in crazy >> low light, my friends with u4/3 had much better luck focusing using the >> f/0.95 lens and focus peaking on manual focus than I did with the Pentax. >> EVF has its advantages and its disadvantages. I suspect that it would not >> work well for John shooting motorsports, but for any subject that is >> reasonably static it should be good enough for framing, composition etc.
I’ve never tried motorsport photography, so can’t comment from experience. The latest Oly models have bird recognition so they will recognise a bird in the frame and focus on its eyes, rather like human face recognition. It probably wouldn’t take much to whip up some fast car recognition. Olympus claims a 6ms response time for the EVF on the E-M1 II, and shutter lag can be 0.032 sec apparently. In addition they (including my older model) have a thing called Pro Capture where you can start the camera recording images with a half-press of the shutter button and it saves the last 35 of them when you fully press the button and continues for up to 60 frames while you hold the button down. This is supposed to help you cut down on all those empty frames where a bird used to be - you can go back through the anticipatory shots and tell all your friends you have the timing genius of HCB. Obviously it doesn’t cut down, it increases the number! But you’re more likely to have something in there which is a good photo rather than just a néant, as Sartre might say, and you can still lie to your friends - after all it’s the image that matters, not the process… I haven’t really tried this yet as my journey towards bird photography is at the first step, but after the recent 2x converter thread I got myself a cheap but very good condition EC-20 which will fit on my 4/3rds 50-200mm lens and in turn onto the E-M1, with an adapter. This gives me up to 800mm in old money. I have a sturdy tripod and fluid head, a cable release and a town full of seagulls to experiment on, so I’ll see what happens. -- %(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.
