I think you are making an assumption without due thought. What would your
working distance be with a 200mm lens shooting an auto race? Usually about 200
feet or so I would think? Even at f/4 to f5.6 and 200mm at 200+ feet you have
30 or so feet of DOF. With a 5 frame motor drive you ought to be able to get
couple of shots especially at corners where the speed is down and the photos
are the most interesting. And if you are shooting broadside and panning your
probably can get 5-6 shots.
Saying it can not be done gives a lie to the millions of racing (etc) photos
that were made long before autofocus. Good lord man they did it with view
cameras, or the big 5x7 SLR's (those things took nearly a half second to raise
the mirror) in the early 1900's.
graywolf
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Markus Maurer wrote:
Hi Graywolf
if you reach enough depth of field, that's a good solution. I do that for
snapshots with normal or wide lenses too.
But with my A70-210mm zoom pr a tele lens at F4 or F5.6 that would not
always work **for me**. And I wnat narrow dof
on close portrait shots.
greetings
Markus
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From: Graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 10:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: I'm Getting an Auto Focus Camera
Most of us old-timers would use zone focus in those kinds of
cases. We would know what area the subject would be in focus in
with the camera setup that way and only shoot when the subject
was in the focus zone. Mindlessly simple when you know how, and
you will I wager get far more in focus shots than with most AF
cameras. It even works with the 4x5 graphic for goodness sake.
graywolf
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Markus Maurer wrote:
Hi Graywolf and Shel
most of the PAW/PESOS I saw from Shel so far where unmoved objects where
manual focusing is easy.
But, taking photographs of a soccer game or for example a young
dog moving
into your direction manually
is really hard, at least for me and my eyes.
That are some of the occasions where I would use auto focus. Otherwise I
always shoot manually but like
the in focus indicator on AF bodies a lot.
greetings
Markus
Shel, I assume you know the technique of focusing an SLR without
fiddling; if so you can focus manually faster than almost all
auto-focus cameras in most situations especially difficult ones.
So you are correct an auto-focus camera provides you with almost
nothing worthwhile.
graywolf
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