On 10/3/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: >Remarkable speed. Not that I have even the first idea how I would use >it other than to make motion pictures...
Good point. My 1DmII will do (allegedly) 8.5 fps but I hardly ever use that. In continuous mode there are two speed settings on the quick top- panel switches - high and low and the user can set the frame rates for both. I have high set at max and low set at 4 fps which is usually plenty. I don't use single frame, always 'continuous - low' which is easy to shoot single frames with. This is more like film cameras of old, as I can shoot and focus at the same time instead of waiting for silly focus confirmation beeps etc. The decisive moment is the best way to shoot as most would agree, but it depends on the situation, surely. I have photographed football (soccer) and with some scenarios it is better to use the machine gun due to the frequent unpredictable nature of the game. Sure, lots of it is quite predictable, like a corner kick, but the scramble in the goal mouth can be totally whacky and half the time the decisive moment turns out to be not when and where one expects. Machine guns at 8 or 10 fps will get the result most of the time. if you're making money selling pictures like this, it's a no-brainer IMO. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
