On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:49:33AM -0600, William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "paul stenquist" > Subject: Re: How useful is SDM? > > > >>> >> Are you shooting with a K7D? I shoot my granddaughter's baseball and >> soccrer games all the time and get a good hit percentage with the K7D >> and DA* 60-250. The same is true when shooting cars. I've had good >> results with both continuous autofocus and spot autofocus. Far better >> than what I could achieve with the K20D. Would another camera be >> better? Perhaps, but the K7D meets me needs, including action work for >> a number of pubs and other clients. > > My K7 and 60-250 would have fallen flat on it's face trying to keep up > with that Golden Retriever in that little Canon vid. > I know this because I tried a similar series of pictures with my dog > running in 6 inches or so of water, and the camera was unable to keep up > with that. > When Pentax AF will keep up with a galloping Rottweiler, they will have > done their job with making a decent AF. > Until then, they have a way to go. > > William Robb
If you spray-paint your Rottweiler the same colour as a Golden Retreiver your camera might perform a little better - AF on black (or partly black) objects is generally quite a bit worse than on other colours. -- 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.
