Thanks, Larry, Paul, and Joe. Much appreciated, but now I have bigger problems. See my "Help" thread. Cheers, Christine
On Dec 1, 2012, at 6:51 PM, jn289 <[email protected]> wrote: > Christine, if you look at all my Sports, Basketball photos, they are all > manual focus. You have to follow the ball or just pre focus at the basket or > mid court. If you are going to use auto focus, make sure you use spot focus. > Some gyms have bleachers at the ends of the court where you could sit and > wait for the action to come your way. Another thing if you have a long lens, > 300 mm or longer, shoot from one end of the court to the other. If you are > using a K5, raise up the iso and try high speed sync with the flash or use > the flash on manual at 1/4, 1/16 power not using high speed sync. Or just do > not use the flash at all with high iso settings...Hope this helps, Joe > > http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=763498 > > > >> Half-time at a basketball game: DA* 50-135 slow and fussy when focusing. >> Really struggling with equipment. Refs always in the way as well. Ugh! >> >> Hope 2nd half is better. >> Cheers, Christine >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
