On the K-1 I use for handheld shots AFS single spot with back focus
button.
For butterflies and damselflies in flight often manual focus because the
Pentax AF is not fast/accurate enough.
For landscape on tripod in Live View (tilted screen!) in Select mode to
get more area to focus on.
For most macro work manual focus - this is a must for focus stacking.
Henk
Op 2021-02-25 om 04:26 schreef Larry Colen:
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?
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