A feature I hear about a lot in point and shoots is facial recognition. They can recognize someone's face in the photograph and focus on it.
There are times that I'd settle for a feature to ignore microphones and drum cymbals. I had some free time Friday evening, so I went to see some friends play a dinner show at a local restaurant. I'm not one to pass up an opportunity to practice my photo skills, so I shot a few frames. Even when I'm manually focusing, I have a habit of relying on the "focus lock" lights, and have a bad habit of forgetting that the camera may be looking at something different than I am. One of the things I do try to do is vary what I do during a shoot in tough light, that way if one thing ends up not working, then something else might. I'm noticing an interesting tradeoff. When I shoot at 3200, I have to throw away a lot fewer shots from subject motion blur. But even though I get a lot fewer keepers at 800, the ones I do keep, look a lot better. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
