I'm able to shoot autofocus sequences with the K7 on continuous. I can definitely nail someone walking. Would I like better autofocus, hell yes, but it's not totally incompetent. Here's a three frame sequence. Not machind gunned but repeated exposures: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9471351 http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9471352 http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9471353 http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9471354
Paul On Apr 27, 2010, at 8:09 PM, William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "P. J. Alling" > Subject: Re: K-7 replacement? > > >> I don't know, more than half my lenses are manual focus, all but one of the >> "fast" ones are. I sometimes wonder how anyone tracked and focused before >> with a high fps camera before AF was invented. > > They had real viewfinders with real focusing screens. > My K7 won't keep up with a bride and her father during a wedding processional. > And, with the viewfinder being the camera equivalent of a sonotube, manual > focus isn't an especially easy task either. > This means that my best technique is to prefocus on a spot and shoot when the > bride enters it, which is precisely the way I did it in the 70s. > In essence, Pentax AF technology is the same now as it was 35 years ago. > > William Robb > > -- > 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.
