Hello Boris, As a rule of thumb, I don't autofocus unless I am unable to make the shot with manual focus. In a wedding, that is rare. I also find that using AF for everything, tends to influence my composition. The reason is that the sensor needs to be pointing at the point of focus (which most of the time, is not where the sensor is pointing). This means you have to focus lock, and then re-compose. It ends up being just as fast to compose/manually focus as to focus lock and recompose. AF is best suited to situations where the subjects are moving and you can't keep up. The only one that comes to mind for weddings, is that trip up the aisle. Even there, getting a snap at the beginning, middle and end are possible with manual focus.
I suspect you'll get a few piping in that this is one of the weak areas for Pentax. So my big tip is practice manually focusing and stay in control of that camera. -- Best regards, Bruce Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 1:02:34 AM, you wrote: BL> Hi! >snip< BL> By the way, Tanya, do you do weddings with MZ-6 you have? If so, I BL> must really ask, how on earth you manage to time your shots w.r.t. BL> very slow and unreliable AF of this camera, even with such a lens as BL> FA 50/1.7. I missed several shots just because the darn thing wouldn't BL> focus, even with its middle sensor... BL> 3. At least in my case 3200 film was all right. It was enough to shoot BL> mostly at f/4, about 1/30-1/60 sec and sometimes with my F 85 soft BL> lens at f/5.6 or even f/8 with help of RTF flash... BL> Well, I'd appreciate any responses, including some advise. BL> Thanks for listening. BL> Boris
