i've run into this situation many times, even with perched birds that aren't
quite staying still. also, when in trying to catch a "just so" expression,
you end up snapping many pictures anticipating them and the *istD's buffer
isn't big enough to keep up shooting RAW.
for the in-flight stuff, is your 200 the 2.8 one? a faster lens helps focus
tracking, but it's still not enough for much of that kind of shooting. i
tried tracking eagles in flight with my usual birding combination and
continuous AF. i figure i am able to keep the center sensor on the bird long
enough to get focus on the bird at most about 20% of the time. it's moving
much too fast to bother with trap or manual focus.
Herb....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: I'm Getting an Auto Focus Camera
I finally switched to my 200mm lens (the longest autofocus lens I have)
and that didn't do any better. The camera couldn't focus fast enough to
handle the job. This is the first situation I've run into where my MZ-S
couldn't handle the job.
The point of all this is that in some situations you need a lot of
focusing points and fast focus.
