Hello Peter, Rather than let you down, I find that autofocus tends to change my composition if I'm not careful. I spend more time thinking about what the AF did (location of focus or shift focus and lock) than about the picture itself. My pictures tend to be better when I compose and then fine tune the focus to the composition rather than focus and then compose. The only time I use AF is when I can't do it manually (no guarantee that the AF does any better).
-- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, May 27, 2004, 9:04:33 AM, you wrote: PJA> Maybe it's just Pentax autofocus, but I find when you begin to depend PJA> upon it, it lets you down. PJA> Amita Guha wrote: >>>Lately I have even been able to do manual focusing in the >>>viewfinder, which is no-where near as bright and clear as the >>>MX, but with practice I can now focus manually which is still >>>necessary to get the focus where _I_ want it sometimes. >>> >>> >> >>I'm finding that I still prefer to focus manually a lot with the istD, >>although it might be just a lack of experience with AF on my part. My >>favorite viewfinder is the one in the Super Program. >> >> >> >>
