It certainly can be done. By planning each shot carefully (tell them, no surprises, please), using manual focus, waiting for the right moment. Any camera with a shutter speed of 1/1000sec can do that. But AF has to be fast to be of any use other besides convenience. The *ist D Auto Focus is a convenience. When it comes to capturing the moment, you better turn it off. Regards Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk
-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Kenneth Waller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 22. februar 2006 02:12 Til: [email protected] Emne: Re: Question: Should I buy an ist D? > If I was asked to document a ballgame - I'd simply have to say: Thank you > very much, but no thanks! You should say yes. I shot several softball games for my church with my *istD this past summer & had absolutely no issues with it at all and got numerous great action shots that were well accepted by the team & the church. Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Bladt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:45 PM Subject: RE: Question: Should I buy an ist D? > That's very good. I agree with most of what you said. > But I get more and more paying customers - they expect me to deliver! > > I know Rick wants photographs for the family album, from travelling with > his > wife an son. > The *ist D will suit him fine and will save him all the hazle (and > expence) > of using film. > Someone also asked about how the D would perform for shooting scaters and > similar stuff. > My reply would have to be, that the D is not the best choise for this. It > just isn't. > > The D works fine for me - as long as I stick to postcards, studio > portraits, > commercial adds and landscapes. > If I was asked to document a ballgame - I'd simply have to say: Thank you > very much, but no thanks! > Please ask someone with a fast camera. With fast AF and 8 FPS and > "unlimited" buffer. > You can make a blaming "movie" with a Canon DSLR, for crying out loud. > I have to wait 37 secs for the next 5 shot boost featuring 2.5 FPS - of > which probably very few will be in focus, because the AF can't cope! > The D is a very nice camera. It is!. But it was never the first choise of > PJ's. Don't you wonder why? > > Regards > Jens Bladt > http://www.jensbladt.dk > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Malcolm Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 21. februar 2006 22:15 > Til: [email protected] > Emne: RE: Question: Should I buy an ist D? > > > Jens Bladt wrote: > >> But if I was starting from scratch, I'm quite certain I'd go >> elsewhere. >> A lot of photographers do, you know. > > PDML = Pentax Defection Mailing List. > > A lot of people shifted both before AND after the launch of the *ist D. I > didn't regret buying mine then or now - it does what I wanted it too and > still does - and all the negative things I thought about it (reliability, > battery munching) all have been proved to be without foundation. > > If I was starting from scratch again, I'd buy a Pentax. > > Malcolm > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.12/266 - Release Date: > 02/21/2006 > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.12/266 - Release Date: > 02/21/2006 > -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.12/266 - Release Date: 02/21/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.12/266 - Release Date: 02/21/2006
