Nenad wrote:
> What I would like to know is whether any Pentax cameras have predictive
> focus when using this function. My Z1 doesn't appear to. I've tried
> it on a subject moving toward me and the shutter seemed to fire late.
DOF
> ensured the prints still came out OK.
I'll bet the shutter didn't fire late and the AF worked fine.
When I recently shot a superbike race I expected half my shots to be out
of focus based on what I saw in the viewfinder. Almost all were in perfect
focus. What I believe was happening to me (and you) is that I was subconsciously
judging the image by what I saw after the exposure had been made the mirror
had come back down, which is a significant time after the exposure for fast-moving
objects. By that time the object being photographed had indeed moved to
far to be in focus, but it was right *in* focus when the shutter opened.
For a fast-moving object, I'd bet the mirror flips up slightly before perfect
focus is achieved and doesn't come back down until after the subject has
passed out of focus. So I never got to see the focused image in the viewfinder
even though my camera got it on film.
I was using a Z-1p
--
Mark Roberts
www.robertstech.com
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