On Wed, Jul 24, 2013, Larry Colen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 03:47:17PM -0700, Aahz Maruch wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013, Larry Colen wrote: >>> >>> It would, however, be very tough to give up my in-body image stabilization. >>> On the other hand, those 39 autofocus points seem very attractive. >> >> Does anyone actually use those multiple autofocus points for live >> handheld shooting? > > The problem that I have is that the area of each autofocus point > is so large that I'll think that I've got it set to autofocus on > the musician, and it autofocuses on the microphone, or something else > in the same region, but which has a much sharper boundary, that is > easier to autofocus on. > > My experience is that generally autofocus is not only faster, but > more accurate than manual focus. Unfortunately it tends to perfectly > focus on the wrong thing.
That's why I do what David does: center point AF, shutter half-press, recompose. I only ever had problems with that on your K-x. ;-) Similarly, letting the camera pick the AF points makes some sense for bird shots and the like. I just can't even visualize the mechanics of manually selecting AF point for handheld shooting, so I figured I'd ask whether anyone does. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- 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.
