On 15/04/2013 11:44 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
On 4/15/2013 12:16 PM, Bill wrote:
On 15/04/2013 9:53 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
People can complain about autofocusing all they want, but
photographers made do without autofocusing cameras for years and
still got good photographs. Even in fast action situations.
This was back when viewfinders were a decent size and manufacturers
put decent screens in for focusing with. The times have changed,
finders are half the size and not as good (though Pentax does better
than most), and stock focus screens are designed for everything but
focusing.
Look at how sports photography has evolved over the past 25 years
since AF went from being not available to a nearly useless curiosity
(which is where Pentax is stuck) to the systems in the modern high
end Nikons.
What the top photographers are doing today in sports would not have
been possible except for blind luck 30 years ago.
Skill is often mistaken for blind luck.
This would be why these days we routinely see pictures of a type that we
never saw in the 1970s. They were shitty photographers back then.
bill
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