Thanks for sharing the information. Hopefully you are aware that the focus point selection is independent of AF-S or AF-C. You can choose a single AF point and then use AF-C. Or maybe you were having problems with needing different points rapidly and couldn't switch them fast enough and the All points missed too many times?
I don't shoot soccer so much - and if I do, it is younger kids up to teens. I have tended to use a medium/long zoom and just miss the really close shots or go for a less than full body. Sometimes just a tight shot can be pretty cool. Certainly one problem is that the other side of the field could use about a 300 or so and the near side could use about a 35. Big range. I look forward to your next shoot. -- Best regards, Bruce Sunday, April 1, 2007, 11:27:25 PM, you wrote: JB> Hello Bruce - thanks for noticing and answering.. JB> You have got a very good point about hte DOF, Bruce. JB> I guess, I was not comfident enough, that I could focus correctly enought to JB> go down to F.3.5-4.5. JB> I shot all shots at F. 5.6 - F8. Basically I used Tv and chose 1/1250 or JB> 1/1000 sec's. JB> I used AF most of the time (mostly not fast enough). I tried AF-C, but that JB> didin't work - too many optional focus points - the camera kept focusing at JB> the background (the sponsor add). JB> Manual foucs didn'¨t work either - the movemnets of the players was too JB> unpredictable. (Or I am out of prctice). JB> So, I finally settled for AF-S. JB> Naturally I used my true everyday servant - my monopod! JB> I had problems with lenses - I had to change between 28-70mm, and 80-200mm JB> frequently. JB> I did notice that the pro's at the site usded two cameras, for that very JB> same reason. JB> I guess that the best focal length for a soccer game would be something like JB> 35-150mm or even 28-180mm. It seems to me Pentax is missing a lens in this JB> range. The DA 50-200mm gets close, though. But for indoor ball games this JB> would be too slow. JB> Sigma males a 50-150mm F. 2.8. Tokina makes a 50-135mm F. 2.8 - both of JB> which wouls be just about suitable for such work. I gues my F1:4/45-125mm JB> would be fine great if it had AF! I guess it's long focusing turns will be JB> a problem, if used with MF. JB> I'm going to shoot annother soccer game on thursday. I guess I'll be JB> bringing the 45-125mm AND two cameras - just in case :-) JB> Which lens do you guys use for ball games? JB> Jens Bladt JB> http://www.jensbladt.dk JB> +45 56 63 77 11 JB> +45 23 43 85 77 JB> Skype: jensbladt248 JB> -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- JB> Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Bruce JB> Dayton JB> Sendt: 2. april 2007 02:20 JB> Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List JB> Emne: Re: GOSE: My first soccer game JB> Hello Jens, JB> Good shots of the action. You managed to catch some pretty good JB> moments. The only thing that stood out to me a bit was that the DOF JB> was quite wide. For some shots, that worked pretty well, but for JB> some, it seemed that there was a lot of background competing for my JB> attention. JB> I would be very interested if you would go in to some detail on how JB> you shot this - camera, lens, techniques (metering, AF, etc). For JB> being out of practice, you done well. JB> -- JB> Bruce JB> Sunday, April 1, 2007, 3:47:34 PM, you wrote: JB>> My home town is going to build a new football stadium. JB>> So, the planning department (that's where I work) wants photographs from JB> the JB>> old one - for a public meeting on the subject. JB>> I haven't photographed a real soccer game since the early 1980'ies - JB> before JB>> Auto Focus was common. JB>> I was surprised how difficult it was :-) JB>> Hopefully I'll do a little better next time... JB>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladt/sets/72157600041128273/show/ JB>> Regards JB>> Jens Bladt JB>> http://www.jensbladt.dk JB>> -- JB>> No virus found in this outgoing message. JB>> Checked by AVG Free Edition. JB>> Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.24/741 - Release Date: JB> 03/31/2007 JB>> 20:54 JB> -- JB> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List JB> [email protected] JB> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net JB> -- JB> No virus found in this incoming message. JB> Checked by AVG Free Edition. JB> Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.24/741 - Release Date: 03/31/2007 JB> 20:54 JB> -- JB> No virus found in this outgoing message. JB> Checked by AVG Free Edition. JB> Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.24/741 - Release Date: 03/31/2007 JB> 20:54 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
