I was using my Pentax 100 f 2.8 macro lens with the *istd on the weekend, and was horrified to find that many shots of what I had taken on auto focus turned out to be so soft as to be useless.
To make matters worse the shots were ones of my first ever encounter with a male Californian quail. I took about a dozen shots of this bird from as close as 2-3 meters away and relied on auto focus for all of them. Bad mistake, I only got one image that was sharp enough to be useable. The bird was stock still as I shot and in fact was listening to the auto focus confirmation beep during the encounter. He was so engrossed with it he actually stood upright once and uttered a little song in response. It was a moment to take my breath away and I was just in raptures at what was happening in front of me. To find the images so poorly focused on downloading was a disappointment to say the least. I don't quite know what to do about it. Regards, Max
