Canon tried at one point with sensor watching where you look - I think if that could be refined and matched up with correspondingly many focus points it might be viable but I doubt anyone will pay the premium beyond the rudimentary version that they had - which incidentally worked so well i never caught onto why they dropped it cheers ecke
2010/2/17 Jos from Holland <[email protected]>: > Sorry Larry, but no autofocus system will be able to guess by itself which > part of the scene you want in focus. > One day you want the singer in focus, next day you want the mike in focus. > Future sytems, but not in the near future, will do this by reading your > mind. > Till than its better to use manual focus. > Greetz Jos > > Larry Colen wrote: >> >> I was photographing at a friend's blues jam last night, using it as a >> chance to practice band photography. I decided to try using autofocus, and >> the handy af point selection. >> >> Looking at the photos, almost every one focuses on the microphone instead >> of the musician. How about an autofocus mode where the camera looks for >> something to focus on a little bit behind the default? This would be handy >> for both musicians and birds in trees. >> >> At the beginning of the evening, I tried a few using the strobist >> suggestion of putting my flash on a monopod, and that seems very promising, >> except for the detail that I end up short one hand, until I come up with a >> harness to hold the monopod or something. >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > 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.
