That is good to know about the AF. One of two or three nits about my K10D is the AF speed and locking on to said subjects.
Still building a new camera fund after that root canal used my previous fund up. Working part time is great for mid day time off, but sucks for enablements. Dave On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:44 PM, AlunFoto<[email protected]> wrote: > On paper the K20D will do about 2.5 frames per second. > On paper the K-7 is about twice as fast. > > Today I played around with both cameras in a park, tracking hooded > gulls as they flew past, and snapping away with the DA*300/4 mounted. > IOW, BiF. :-) > I was stunned by the difference. The K-7 locked focus on the gull and > kept it there for whole series at a time, while the K20D struggled to > reestablish focus between every shot. As a result, about one in four > was in focus with the K20D. With the K-7, the ratio was 17 out of 20. > And needless to say, the practical difference in actual FPS is far > more than the nominal doubling. My gut feeling says today's > performance was about 3x faster for the K-7. > > Can't wait to repeat the test with the FA*600/4. > > Jostein > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > 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. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
