I'm going through my dance portraits from Saturday night, and I'm finding a lot where the K20 missed focus. I was mostly shooting with the 16-50 on the K20, at about f/6.3. I could have cranked the strobe up higher, but I didn't want my home depot backdrop to also be in perfect focus. There was one batch where the back of the leader's sweater was in focus, but the dancers faces were just slightly soft. I don't know if this was mis focused on the sweater, or just a blown focus where DoF still caught the sweater, because there are others where everything is sharp.
I've got a bunch more that are simply blown focus. It could simply be pilot error because when people are dancing I lock focus, and hit the focus lock so that the shutter will activate when I press it. I'm afraid that I don't trust the responsiveness of the autofocus, and may be screwing myself up there. I expect that the problem is a team effort between the camera and myself, exacerbated by my not trusting because the focus is slow and perhaps a bit unreliable. Or, as a wise man once said, "Aaarrgggh". -- 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.
