Wendy said:
> I did something I swore I'd never do myself and had
> scorned others as talentless and without skill for
> doing so. I put the camera into continuous drive and
> AF servo mode and went machine gunning. I almost feel
> embarrassed to own up to it :-S
> But I'm happy to say I got some decent shots out of
> it, some of which I would have been practicing for the
> next hundred years to get using the one-shot, prefocus
> method I normally use.
>
> Wendy
>
I tried the AF-C and high motor drive at a few horse shows,early in my digital
life. Only
2 aspects of the
sport suit this kind of shooting. The dressage and the reining or barrel racing
type of
events,were the
movement is to quick to determine when to shoot in the finder.
I use the prefocus on the jump in question method for jumping shots and other
than some
with a bit of
camera shake are all pretty much in foucus.
There are a few that shoot events along with me,that "machine gun" and i truley
beleive
they miss 90%
of good shots as they view the lcd and delete unwanted shots(chimping i think
they call it
right.)
Most of the machine gun shots they go for is rear end and after jump shots
which i know no
one
wants.
There is a time and place for this method,just have to know when i suppose.
As for personal photography with digital,i attack it as i would a film
camera.Think out
the shot and go fo
rthe best possible shot.
However with instant review,extra shots are made if exposures are not quite
right.But not
to many.LOL
FWIW I have had the D now for 10 days and have no keepers. I'm still in test
mode at 55
shots.lol
Have a great Christmas everyone.
Dave Brooks
