On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Dario Bonazza <[email protected]> wrote: > steve harley wrote: > >> as an example of this going the other way i note your later message that >> focus is your next most important factor after ISO/d-range, but you don't >> elaborate ... in my case i have almost abandoned autofocus ... > > With my subjects often moving quickly in dim light, an excellent autofocus > would help a lot. I'm hesitant in defining the Pentax autofocus as being > excellent, but the K-5 is not so bad at it, also without the AF beam ... > I'm also intrigued by a reliable new way for assisting manual focus (such as > high-magnification EVF and such), but that won't help with moving subjects. > ...
It's very interesting to hear others' take on this. I have found over and over again that when I disable AF my photos are far more consistently in-focus, regardless of camera and regardless of how low the light I'm working in might be or whether the subjects are moving or not. AF generally does little other than slow things down for me. Like steve, I've moved more and more to abandoning AF entirely too. "As quick and precise an AF system as possible" would lead me to looking into the Nikon D3s and D700, they seem to be the market leaders in this area as well as in sensitivity and noise control. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
