like I said I dont really do sports but I just noticed on this photo sequence that the player is in the same position at the baseline in every shot. That would have been easy even with MF because all you had to do was prefocus just behind the baseline. Lets not forget, there were plenty of great sports photos taken before AF systems in the mid 80's. Sometimes like this it can be basic and the shutter response time is even faster than when using AF. That said, I would never want to do a lot of sports without AF, yes its easier with digital because you can just shoot away without any wasted film costs, but its still difficult without AF when there is a lot of action towards and away from camera postion. I do recall trying to do amatuer basketball once, that was really hard to focus fast manually.
JC O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom" - Thomas Jefferson -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Maas Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 1:05 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: A70-210/4 assessment- If AF matters, how about the SMC FA80-200/2.8 It's also rather rare, lacks full-time focus override and weather sealing and probably AF's slower due to the large amount of glass and lack of SDM. Would be a good choice if you can actually find one though. -Adam On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:58 PM, JC OConnell <[email protected]> wrote: > http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1036&message=20382864 > > Maybe thats a better lens for possibly the same or less money? I dont > know but it would be worth investigating, no? > > > FWIW, > There are other F4 or faster AF lenses out there by third parties too, > some 60-300mm, some 75-300m some other 50/60/70/80 - 200/210/300mmm > etc. There are lots of choices > in F4 or faster long telezooms if you count the used market and > everything > ever made in that range. Its always been a popular range. > > > > JC O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) > "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom" - Thomas > Jefferson > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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. -- 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.
