On 1/28/08, Carlos Royo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Maas escribió: > > > > Having owned a D50, don't judge Nikon's performance by it's AF system. > > It isn't anywhere near fast and is the real weak link in that setup. > > The D80 will be noticably faster, and something like a D300 will show > > a night & day difference. The D50's a nice little camera outside the > > bad viewfinder, but speed is not its strong point and the Multi-CAM900 > > 5 point AF system used in it has always sucked (It sucked on the F80 > > and has sucked on everything Nikon's used it on since. Thankfully it's > > now dead). > > > > You are right about the D50, Adam, but as I also said, I tried the > lenses on a D200, which has a far better AF system. They locked focus > better in low light than with the D50, sure, but they weren't any faster > in good light. Many times people are obsessed with "faster AF", and > there are many factors involved. Faster doesn't mean better, in some > bodies (some Canon and Nikon which I have tried) it means "less accurate". > > Carlos >
Pretty much any AF system will be fast in good light these days, unless you're tracking moving objects. It's in low light that AF-S performance varies. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
