For my genre, basically stationary objects for the most part, center focus point works best. I decide, not the camera, then recompose. Just like in the good old film days with an MX.
I have the brain, the camera does not. Tom On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:04 PM, David Savage <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's a question for the K7 crowd... > > How many AF points does it have? > > A couple of people during this discussion have poo poo'ed the need for > a swag of AF points, but one of the things I like about the D700's 51 > point AF is I can select 1 particular point and with the flick of a > switch the surrounding 8 points come into the equation (think 3x3 > grid). > > I find this really useful when shooting action and the subject is > moving toward/away from me. > > Flick the above mentioned switch again ane all 51 points come into > play with surprisingly accurate results. > > On 13/01/2010, Doug Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2010-01-12 21:56, Joseph McAllister wrote: >>> >>> On Jan 12, 2010, at 15:29 , Rob Studdert wrote: >>> >>>> Obviously Pentax's focus assist is fine with relatively static subjects. >>> >>> Only if you focus twice. :-) >> >> And check which focus point it chose. And make sure that whatever focus >> point ended up selected actually points at something you actually want >> to be in focus. >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> DougF (KG4LMZ) >> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
