Guess I should chime in a bit here. I just got back from shooting little league baseball. I do set the K10D to continuous but rarely machine gun. Pretty much I do that when I want an actual sequence of shots rather than just trying to get the 'moment' - like a slide into 2nd or 3rd or a pitcher in windup and throwing. The concept there is that most of the frames are good rather than boring or throwaway.
However, I will say that there have been many times especially shooting something less predictable like soccer where I have missed the moment partly because I never really saw the moment. I could see sometimes getting an interesting shot in the bunch by machine gunning in the thick of the action. I don't shoot that way, but can see some logic in it. -- Bruce Saturday, March 10, 2007, 2:37:25 PM, you wrote: GD> On Mar 10, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Cotty wrote: >> Good point. >> ... >> 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. GD> Interesting differences in shooting methodology. I normally have the GD> K10D set to one-shot as I rarely make more than one or two exposures, GD> unless I have auto-bracketing turned on, and the focusing/ GD> responsiveness of the K10D seems able to keep up with me: the camera GD> always seems to be ready to make the next exposure at the moment I am. >> The decisive moment is the best way to shoot as most would agree, >> but it >> depends on the situation, surely. ... GD> Yes, I agree. Even for sports work, though, I've found it best to GD> work on MY timing, not machine gun blast it. The latter generally GD> makes for a whole lot of mostly boring photos. GD> Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
