On Jan 11, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Cotty wrote:
On 11/1/10, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed:
I haven't even fantasized about autofocus that works that well. I
can
see that if I were to start photographing fast moving objects then
there is definitely something a lot better than Pentax.
To be perfectly honest, and some may see this as strange coming from
me,
I don't think this is what the 'Pentax shooter' is about.
Now that's a good religious discussion, the definition of the 'Pentax
shooter'.
Rattling off at 8 fps is neither here nor there.
I don't care about 8fps. I do care about capturing my subject, in
focus. Some of my subjects move a bit faster than redwoods or
mushrooms, and perhaps a bit less predictably.
I have all but given up on autofocus except when I'm shooting from an
angle where I can't see through the viewfinder. If I had the
lightroom fu, I'd search through my photos and see what percentage
were shot with autofocus, and what percentage of the keepers, or the
exported jpegs were. I'm guessing 10-20%.
I basically took pictures three times this weekend. Friday night was
an Aikido seminar under incandescent light, Saturday morning was in
the same dojo, but with light from the windows, and last night there
were two babies being very cute at a party. Pentax AF was all but
useless. There was one time where someone asked me to get a photo of
him and the guest sensei which in retrospect I should have turned AF
back on, because I blew the focus of one of the two shots.
Horses for courses. If you want to shoot amazing wildlife like that or
capture perfect sports stills, Canon or Nikon would be a good choice
for
the technology. For most other aspects of non-professional (and even
sometimes paid) photography, Pentax and Olympus et al would be a
better
choice - and as we all know, life is *all* about choices.
Never mind professional sports, how about a fifteen month old kid
toddling through a house?
I see my K100 and K20 as pretty much modern replacements for my
SRT-101. They are effectively fully manual cameras, with good image
quality (for the price) with nearly functional auto exposure and auto
focus capabilities that sometimes come in handy. I like to think that
their encouraging me to do everything manually make me a better
photographer because they force me to think about more aspects of each
photograph rather than just pointing and shooting.
For those that care, the photos I mentioned are here:
Aikido:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157623178599074/
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157623178827530/
babies:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157623065252097/
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