Thanks Jos, K-5 autofocus is improved over K-7 by a considerable amount. I believe the difference is most evident with the SDM lenses, although I'm not certain of that, as I rarely shoot with screw drive autofocus lenses. I use single focus mode and I choose a point. I usually know what point I'm going to need. If I get it wrong, I frae off center and crop. I've shot with continuous mode as well, but I think my hit ratio is better with the single lock mode. If I'm diligent and work at it, I can get 50% or better hit ratio on action shots with the K-5. I would guess it was about half that with the K-7. Paul On Jun 15, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Jos from Holland wrote:
> Hi Paul, nice shot. Did you use the single focus mode or contineous > (predictive). > > All my Pentaxes had difficulties with fast moving subjects, like big birds > flying over my head at rather near distance, like in demonstrations. > No time to select focus point, I get best results (1 out of 10 is sharp) in > contineous focus and auto focus point selection with K7. > Do you have experience with these kind of things? K5 better than K7? > greetz, Jos > > On 13-6-2011 2:56, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> I've developed a good feel for getting the K-5 to autofocus on fairly fast >> moving subjects. I use spot focus and kind of feather the shutter button >> about halfway down, then pick my spot. I'm pleased with this camera in so >> many ways. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=13402152 > > -- > 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.
