On 2013-04-15 4:12, Larry Colen wrote:
What photos are you losing because your gear isn't performing well enough, or because it doesn't have a feature that you need? And in what situations does this present itself? If there is a work around, what do you need to do to get the shot?
The two main ones for me are AF speed (and reliable locking), and buffer size.
Occasionally, shooting auto racing, there are enough different shots close enough together that I fill the K-10Ds buffer (I haven't upgraded from there yet), even with fast-ish (20 MB/sec) SD cards. The only thing I know to do technically to work around the problem is to always reformat my SD cards rather than simply deleting all of the files. But I doubt that really makes an appreciable difference.
To work around AF speed, I mostly use full manual mode with prefocus zones and DoF, just as if I was using my LX. If I'm shooting with the Sigma APO 400/5.6 Macro, or a pre-F Pentax lens, I can use trap focus. Trapping seems to take a lot of decision paths out of the AF logic, but it still misses occasionally.
And it really hurts when trying to capture a developing action, like an on-track incident, and both get in the way of the same series of shots.
I wouldn't mind faster lock time, either. -- Doug "Lefty" Franklin NutDriver Racing http://NutDriver.org Facebook "NutDriver Racing" Sponsored by Murphy -- 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.
