On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 1, 2009, at 4:44 AM, Anthony Farr wrote:
>> Godfrey's comments about the G1's suitability for candid portraiture, >> especially restless children, will be interesting. > > I have done a little bit of people work with the G1 so far, and find it a > superb performer. But most of my shooting in this vein has been with adapted > manual lenses (the Pentax M50/1.4 and Nikkor 20/3.5) so if you're looking > for AF performance and responsiveness, I can't say too much there yet. > > However, I will say that the AF system is astonishingly accurate on > portraiture with both the Summilux-D 25mm f/1.4 and the standard 14-45 > lenses, wide open. Set the AF to 'face detect' mode and it identifies and > tracks faces in the field of view with uncanny accuracy and nails the eye as > critical focus point. For a portrait shooter, set the camera on a tripod, > hook up the remote release, frame the subject and shoot away ... the hit > rate will be better than 95% perfect! > > Godfrey Having played a bit with the G1, I was extremely impressed with its AF performance on the 14-45 kit lens. Quite possibly best in-class (It at least rivals the Sony A200 for speed and that's arguably the fastest low-end DSLR for AF). -Adam -- 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.
