On Wed, 17 May 2006 22:55:28 +0100, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 17/5/06, graywolf, discombobulated, unleashed:
When your reputation's is on the line, I don't see how you can leave
things to the cameras choice.
Unless the camera is faster and better than [you] are. I wouldn't have
thought it possible as I've always been a manual focus guy, only
acquiring a camera with AF in 2002. That was a D60 and it was crap AF. I
did not expect much better in 2004, but how wrong I was.
It is not like spec work where you don't
even have to admit a dud exists. Auto cameras are right 90% of the time.
It is the other 10% that worries me. And you do not know which 10% that
it is you have to worry about. Better to do it yourself then at least if
you screw up it is you who screwed up.
To each their own my friend. The other day I was shooting some
colleagues around the sat truck just for fun. On one shot the AF went
AWOL. That's the second time it has ever happened to me in nearly 10,000
exposures (of which I would estimate over 75% are AF).The first time it
was just too dark.
One has to know one's gear on a level where trust is earned, not
expected.
Quite so. And for those of us with dodgy eyesight, the camera can usually
do better than we can. So who's the fool for using manual, when the
machine is better?
John
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