Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
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.
It can depend on subjects and situations one faces more often, and skills,
of course. It's not difficult to believe you regarding pictures YOU shoot.
But by and large with the best AF systems I've tried, I can
focus faster and more accurately than any of them. I sometimes shoot
at sports racing events and I *always* obtain better results with
manual focus than with AF systems.
That's a relative statement. It can mean you get excellent results with MF,
or bad results with AF.
I'm quite sure that pro sports photographers get far better results today
with high-end AF cameras than they ever dreamed of with good old manual
focus cameras. That's not just a guess. Internationally-rewarded sports
photographers told me that, on occasion of interviews I took for the
magazines I work for.
AF is a useful convenience feature
with quite a lot of significant limitations in my view.
See above.
But a lot of people hold your opinion as gospel and I'm not going to
debate it.
I don't take gospel as gospel, go figure about other opinions. Any opinion
is fine unless it is denied by evidence in the same situation.
I'm sorry, but as good as the K5 is, it is nowhere near the competence
of the Nikon D3s as a professional grade camera body, nor are there
anywhere near the depth and breadth of state of the art lenses
available for it. It's simply not in that class of camera, and I doubt
Pentax would assert that it was either. It's closer to the D700 class
of camera, although again you're getting more in the larger format
camera than Pentax offers with respect to base low light performance,
improved AF, better viewfinder, and more lens options, albeit at a
higher price.
OK, let's say a K-5 outfit is the desperate's D3s/D700 outfit. I meant it's
the best you can do for approaching the performance of the highest-end
DSLR's while keeping a much lower level of expenditure.
This discussion is certainly wandering away from the original intent
of the thread. ;-)
Which is not necessarily a bad thing ;-)
Dario
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