the February Popular Photography "Your Best Shot" column reproduces a USAF photo of a pilot ejecting from his F-16 as the plane was coming straight at the photographer. the camera locked onto the front of the airplane as it flew directly toward and then crashed to a stop about 100 feet from the photographer. it allowed him to take an in-focus image as it moved. the article captions says that the camera was a Nikon D1X, not noted for its AF speed, on a 300/2.8. figure the aircraft was travelling a couple of hundred miles an hour. http://www.rapp.org/archives/2004/01/thunderbird_crash/
Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: RE: *istD AF performance (was Re: Sigma 2.8 Zoom lens comments) > Cameras cannot lock on to anything. Like an electronic weapon system in an > F18-Hornet. I wish it could. It can only focus on a subject/distance. Then > perhaps refocus on annother subject/distance.
