Thanks, Nick, Dave, & John. I'm actually eager for the next game to try
this out. I have this feeling I'm going to like shooting sports--we'll see.
Cheers, Christine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick David Wright" <[email protected]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: shooting basketball
Christine,
I've shot sports extensively. And I've used both methods. I'll switch
back and forth. Also depended on the sport. Basketball I usually left
the autofocus tied to the shutter button, but baseball I usually
switched AF to the button on the back.
Good luck.
~Nick David Wright
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Christine Aguila
<[email protected]> wrote:
Last Thursday night, I shot my 1st college basketball game knowing full
well
I was entering new photographic territory. I put the camera on Continuous
Autofocus (which I often don't use) and happily blundered about. Upon
reflection, staying out of people's way was my greatest achievement that
night. :-).
After looking at the 150 frames taken, I knew some study was in order and
have since read the chapters on "shooting sports," which I often skip when
reading photography books.
From Kobre's book:
"Many sports shooters use their thumbs on [the autofocus button on the
back
of the camera] for focusing while using their forefingers on the front
[shutter] button to take the picture. Holding the back focus button allows
the lens to continue focusing even when releasing the front shutter button
between shooting picture bursts" (108).
Anybody here use this technique? I thought I might give it a try.
Cheers, Christine
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