Ten reasons for recommending the *ist D for action photography: 1: AF is slow, compared to the competition. Focusing in low light will require 2-4 secs (according to dpreview tests). You may use MF, and save time experimenting with AF. Enjoy using old, lovely, smooth MF lenses. 2: Frames pr. second is just 2.5 (competition features 4-8.3 FPS). You may use single shot mode. Make sure to plan each shot carefully and try not to think too much about the athletes moving in a surprising way - you know the sports and can foresee everything that will occur. 3: Write speed is 8 secs for 1 RAW file (36-37 secs for a 5 shot RAW burst, 14 secs for a JPEG burst). This gives you plenty of time for talking to you colleagues and for drinking coffee or smoking cigarettes. 5: Relatively high noise at ISO 1600-3200. This will give you many entertaing hours, using Neat Image and other nice computer applications in the comfort of you home. 6: Availability of new, fast (F:1.4-2.8) lenses is very limited. Use every Monday, checking ebay for discontinued FA F.2.8 lenses. This is really entertaining - much more enjoyable than the actal photographing. 7: Only 6MP leaves very little "space" for after-cropping. Enjoy the art of cropping the images while shooting. 8: Reviewing pix is relatively slow - and must await the rather long writing times. It's more fun taking chances. It's more exiting to check the images at home, later on. 9: No immediate histogram available. Enjoy your ability to judge the exposure in advance, using the +/- settings. 10:No flashing overexposure warning available for fast checking exposure. (Same comment as above).
More advantages: The Pentax *ist D is a very nice, well built, high qaulity DSLR camera. Perfect for traveling (small size) and photographing when ever time is NOT an issue - for landscapes and studio portraits. This makes is a good choise for me. That's what I do. For sports photography I don't believe this camera is the first choise of many photographers. I would like to talk to some of the (noumorous) sports photographers, who are successfully using a Pentax *ist D and will actually prefere this to the rather fast working cameras from the otherwise prefered cameras by pro's - Nikons and Canons. Until I do, I can recommend this camera for action photography to anyone who enjoy the exitement of constantly testing you own skills as well as the exitment concerning the art of selling the the images to newspapers and magazines. With a Pentax *ist D at the stadium, there's never really a dull moment. Regards Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 25. februar 2006 00:30 Til: [email protected] Emne: Re: *IST-D / DS & High speed action! Har! Actually that focalplane shutter took a 10th of a second to move the 5 inchs. That is where the idea of those carton cars leaning forwards to indicate speed came from, those old photos. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- John Francis wrote: > Sure was. And 1/30 of a second froze the action much better. > Mind you, you also had to lug that heavy camera equipment > around - uphill both ways, of course. > > Tell that to the kids of today, and they won't believe you. > > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 03:44:54PM -0500, graywolf wrote: > >>I always wonder how those oldtime racing shots were taken with a Graflex >>5x7 SLR back around 1910 or so. Maybe 100mph was slower back in those days? >> >>graywolf >>http://www.graywolfphoto.com >>http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf >>"Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" >>----------------------------------- >> >> >>John Francis wrote: >> >>>On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:18:24PM +0100, Jens Bladt wrote: >>> >>> >>>>A 5 FPS camera from Pentax (Autumn 2006) is a little late, isn't it? >>>> >>>>I am speaking from experience, you know. I have shot almost 30.000 frames >>>>with a *ist D. I believe I know very well, what I'm talking about. >>>> >>>>I don't really do action shots. >>> >>> >>>Well, make up your mind. >>> >>>If experience matters, then I think my thousands of action shots, >>>taken with the *ist-D, suggest that perhaps *I* know what I'm >>>talking about when I say that the D is adequate for all but the >>>most demanding situations. Not ideal, by any means, but adequate. >>>And some of the limitations were fixed, some time ago, in the DS; >>>I've yet to encounter a situation where a D with the write speed >>>and buffer size of the DS, (plus, on a few occasions, the 4fps >>>frame rate of the PZ-1p), would have prevented me getting just >>>the shot I was trying for. >>> >>>As, by your admission, you don't do action photography, then your >>>experience isn't really relevant, no matter how many frames you >>>have shot. >>> >>>As others have pointed out, it's the photographer, far more than >>>the equipment, that determines how good a shot you can bring home. >>>I've even managed to get first-class results from a simple Canon >>>Powershot G1 (an 8x10, from a 3.3MP camera, of a Porsche 911 at >>>racing speeds) - when I mix it in with my best DSLR and scanned >>>shots nobody has yet been able to pick it out as the P&S sample. >>> >>>If you expect the camera to do everything for you, then of course >>>you're going to be disappointed. It's best to pre-focus at about >>>the right distance, so that even if you're using focus tracking >>>the camera is starting from roughly the right setting. That's >>>where the *ist-D and siblings are much better than the MZ-S - the >>>AF logic predicts which way to correct far more often, so you lose >>>less shots while the AF hunts to the end-stop and back again. >>>It's also best to select the AF point, rather than letting the >>>camera choose (this becomes more important at long focal lengths). >>>This isn't rocket science. In fact if you look carefully at how >>>most of those full-time professionals with a truckload of Canon >>>gear work, you'll find that they use their equipment in just >>>that way - letting their experience guide the camera's automation. >>> >>> > > > -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.0.0/268 - Release Date: 02/23/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.0.0/268 - Release Date: 02/23/2006
