I've never had my K10D set to AUTO AF. I have it on SEL and use the center sensor. Every once in a while, in more casual shooting, I'll move it around and pick a focus point. Mostly I use the center to lock the focus and hold the shutter button down halfway then recompose and fire.
-Brendan --- Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never use the multi-sensor AF. It's an idiot mode > as far as I'm > concerned. I select a sensor based on what I'm > shooting. Sometimes > the center, sometimes one at an edge. If, for > example, I'm trying to > captures portraits in the coffee shop, I'll > frequently go for the top > sensor with the camera in portrait mode. Same for > people walking on > the street, although in that case I'll use > continuous focus. And with > DA lenses, i frequently resort to manual override. > In a setting like > the coffee shop, where the pace is slow, I'll > frequently use manual > focus if I'm using an FA or earlier lens. > Paul > On Feb 1, 2008, at 9:01 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote: > > > I always have it on the center sensor. In this > case, I > > was in AF-S mode. One thing I should have done is > turn > > on the SR. > > > > -Brendan > > --- Igor Roshchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> Brendan, > >> > >> Excuse me for an obvious question-reminder, but > it's > >> been happening > >> a few times here and elsewhere that people forget > >> this. > >> Do you have you AF set to use all the sensors or > >> only one? > >> I don't have first hand experience with th K10D, > I > >> only see > >> it on DS, but I believe K10D suffers from the > same > >> problem, > >> that the camera doesn't choose the focus point > well > >> enough. > >> In either regime (AF-S or AF-C), I just use a > >> one-point focus. > >> At least that way I know what it is focusing on. > >> > >> Igor > >> > >> > >> Fri Feb 1 18:11:12 EST 2008 > >> Brendan MacRae wrote: > >> > >>> Thanks, Igor. > >>> > >>> I did add a bit of Smart Sharpen but it may be a > >> tad > >>> soft in any event. I think he was moving when I > >> fired > >>> that one off. He never sits still so I have to > >> shoot > >>> with the continuous advance on. > >>> > >>> -Brendan > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> 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. > >> > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > ______________ > > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > > -- > > 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. > > > -- > 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. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- 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.
