On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 04:54:14PM +0100, Jens Bladt wrote: > P?l, have you tried to shoot into a group of people, vehicles, animals etc. > that are moving with the D? > Nothing good will come of it - even with a F. 2.8 lens. > Sports photography is simply off limits using a *ist D, IMO. > The AF is too slow and FPS is insufficient
I'm sure that will come as a surprise to those amongst us doing sports photography with a D - apparently we must be hallucinating. The buffer size is a limitation - I have lost shots because the camera is still writing out earlier images. But I've been able to use AF, even with big, heavy lenses. Not that there isn't considerable room for improvement; I don't agree with the posters who suggest even cameras such as the MZ-S can auto-focus as well as competitive bodies such as the 20D with USM lenses. I've used Pentax, Nikon & Canon bodies at events, and I'm firmly convinced that the Pentax AF is neither as fast nor as reliable as the competition; if my livelihood depended on my ability to bring home the results I would have switched by now. But to suggest auto-focus is unusable is overstating the case.
