I realize that it will be nearly imposiible to focus on the snow- I'm interested in focussing on the skier of course. However, sometimes the skier is small in the frame, and the AF hiccups and starts hunting. I do all of my skiing photography with manual focus right now, because as soon as the AF starts to hunt I am completed hosed. Another problem I have is that the AF seems ok, but it won't lock and it won't let me fire the shutter. This especially sucks if I'm shooting at f/11 or something and I know that the focus is good enough.
-Scott On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 23:57, Don Sanderson wrote: > Any AF camera will have trouble with snow, > AF works by judging the contrast (Difference > between light and dark areas) of the subject. > Anything that is all one color with no shadow > lines or prominent texture or color difference > to create contrast will be IMPOSSIBLE for AF > to lock on to. > Also, anything that is too bright or too dark > will give AF fits. > Even the human eye needs to find some kind of > feature or shadow area to focus on. > When I want my AF lenses to retract all the way > to infinity for storage I just point the camera > at a wall or ceiling that is all one color. > Fools the AF everytime, causing the lense to go > from one extreme to the other. > > Don > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Scott Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 12:46 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: *ist D AF and snow? > > > > > > I shoot a MZ-5n right now, but the AF has trouble with snow. I like to > > shoot backcountry skiing, so you can see how this is a problem for me. > > I was wondering how the *ist D AF handles this sort of thing. Does > > anyone have experience they'd like to share? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Scott
