On 16/1/05, Jens Bladt, discombobulated, unleashed: >I handled one of the very first five Canon D1's, when they first came to >Europe (2001?) at a Canon presentation in Cork, Ireland. It had 45 focus >points. The viewfinder was totally covered with focus points - they lit up >like the neon lights of Las Vegas, when the camera was moved. The focus >changed as fast as I could move the camera. And it took 4-8 frames every >time I pressed the shutter (8 fps). It sounded like a freaking Uzi!
The focus points can be set so that they do not light up, and can be set so that all or some or one are active. > >About locking onto something: To me this means focusing on a subject, then >stay focused at the same subject, even if it moves. No camera that I know of >does this. Not even the Canon D1. The 1D can do this no problem. It also has predictive focussing so that if a bird is flying towards you, it realises this and moves the focus to stay with it. I tend to use manual focus for most things, but I was shooting a soccer match the other day at a school (my son was playing) until I was spotted and told photography was not permitted on school grounds with written permission (shoot first ask questions later). Out of about a hundred frames, I noticed one was a bit soft on the subject (my son) - and that was because he darted behind another player and the camera got confused. I think the ideal focus system would be like that super-duper handheld weapon in 'The Fifth Element' that Zorg demonstrates to a horde of unruly aliens whereby when it is fired at the target, all subsequent firings hit the same target no matter where the weapon is pointed! <http://www.geekroar.com/film/archives/5th_goldman.jpg> :-) Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________
