I seem to have read that FPS of the K10D is a tiny bit faster than the D. Write speed is faster and the buffer is larger. But the AF system has not changed. It's still SAFOX VIII. Your shot is excellent. But IMO it's "more an exception than a rule" about how the D perform action shooting/autofocus. The fact that some list members use manual focus rather than AF for this type of shooting seems to confirm this. Let's face it - Safox VIII is not the fastest or most accurate or most predictive AF system on this planet
Heck - some Canons use 45 AF points (giving a different meaning to the word "predictive") as well as two separate micro processors especially dedicated to the focusing system (This may be the reason why a lot of action shooters are Canon users). Pentax does not aim to compete with this at all. If they did, they would have improved the AF system - to SAFOX IX or X or whatever. Regards Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Frits Wüthrich Sendt: 27. december 2006 22:08 Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Emne: Re: *istD AF On Wednesday 27 December 2006 16:47, Jens Bladt wrote: > Very nice photograph - in fact it's excellent! > This was not done with continous AF, was it? Well, at some distance any > photograph is always sharp. Only not necessarily where you wnat it to be. > In my experience the *istD AF/Continuos AF is not fast enough for anything Yes, I used (predictive) continious AF. But drive mode on single frame, if that is what confuses you. I wait for the decisive moment, rather then take 2.6 frames per second only to find out later I just missed the one shot in between two frames. A faster FPS would be very welcome though. AF-Single or manual doesn't work for me, I am not vary able to focus manualy for action shots. The photo is a crop of a landscape photo, the height is the full height of the land scape frame. Aperture is 6.7, as it can't go larger at a focal length of 150mm. That does give some more DOF, however focus seems to be spot on. > movuing faster than a walking human. I have pointed this out many times on > this list. Other list members allways seem to answer me, that shots like > this must be done using MF. So, in a way they seem to agree - the AF isn't > fast enough for action photography. Alone the slow FPS speed indicates > this. If FPS were sharper the AF would never cope. Perhaps this is what is different between your shooting style and mine. I can imagine there is not much time for focussing after a photograph was made and the next will be made when the camera is in continuos drive mode. > In my understanding the K10D is not really faster than the D. Only write > speed is faster. That was not my impression, but I will see in a few days. > I ma looking forward to hearing about your results in this area. > I wont' be getting my K10D until May 1st. So, I'd like to know. > What I am looking foreward to is better cropablity, faster write speed and > Shake Reduction. Still, faster AF would be very nice. > Regards > Jens > > > Jens Bladt > http://www.jensbladt.dk > +45 56 63 77 11 > +45 23 43 85 77 > Skype: jensbladt248 > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af > Frits Wüthrich > Sendt: 27. december 2006 15:51 > Til: [email protected] > Emne: *istD AF > > > With the recent discussion in mind that the K10D AF isn't fast enough for > football and American football as we call it in the Netherlands, I wanted > to show a photograph I made of a hockeygame with my *istD on continues > autofocus, using the FA 100-300 f4.5-5.6, a lens not well respected on this > list. This sport is at least as fast as the other ones mentioned, but there > are not many photos that go wrong on focus with this combo as long as there > is enough light. > Take a look at: > http://www.xs4all.nl/~wuthrich/foto/IMGP4879.jpg > It is a matter of following the action with the shutter halfway down till > you > reach the decisive moment. I leave choosing the autofocus point up to the > camera. > > I wonder what my K10D will do for me in this area. It was sent to me on 22 > Dec > from TeKaDe in Germany, it didn't arrive yet, can be any moment now. I need > to start saving for the 60-250 lens. > > -- > Frits Wüthrich > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.28/604 - Release Date: 12/26/2006 > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.28/604 - Release Date: 12/26/2006 -- Frits Wüthrich -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.28/604 - Release Date: 12/26/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.28/604 - Release Date: 12/26/2006 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
