On Wednesday 27 December 2006 21:17, Tom C wrote: > I was never happy with the camera-selected AF point. How can it possibly > know my composition? I'm the 'pre-focus using center point then compose > type'.
I do that for portraits also, and then also in AF-Single, but not for sports. > > Tom C. > > >From: John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > >Subject: Re: *istD AF > >Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:08:18 -0500 > > > >On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:05:49AM -0500, Doug Franklin wrote: > > > Frits W?thrich wrote: > > > > I leave choosing the autofocus point up to the camera. > > > > > > I don't because with the race cars, I often have to "manage" the DOF by > > > intentionally biasing the focus point to compensate for the shutter's > > > lock time. > > > >As do I. In fact I'm not too keen on the full-auto-focus mode at > >any time; I've got a whole stack of shots where *something* is > >nicely in focus, but it isn't actually what I wanted. The K10D > >may focus faster, but that's still no help if it's focussing on > >the wrong thing, and I rather doubt the K10D uses significantly > >different auto-focus point selection criteria than the *ist-D. > > > > > >-- > >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >PDML@pdml.net > >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- Frits Wüthrich -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
