Excellent shot, Frits! I used the *ist-D for shooting high school swim meets using the continuous AF setting. Like you I usually let the camera pick the AF point. Not every shot came out and I had to learn a few tricks - like focusing on the water in front of a fast butterfly swimmer coming head on, or pre-focusing manually to shot some of the dives. But over all, the AF performance was fine - I alway brought back a few hundred shots after each meet for the parents to buy.
- MCC Frits Wüthrich wrote: > 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. > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
