Amen to that! I find it difficult to use the multiple autofocus points in any handheld shooting. Pentax doesn't focus fast enough to select th 26th point vs the 27th. When I try letting the camera pick the AF point, it goes all over the scene. And not necessarily where I want. Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013, Matthew Hunt wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Does anyone actually use those multiple autofocus points for live >>> handheld shooting? >> >> I think it would be a big help for birds in flight. On Pentax bodies, >> it's easy for the bird to slip in between the sites, or outside the >> area they cover. Then the lens starts hunting, and you're toast. > > Let me rephrase: does anyone actually use manually-selected AF points for > handheld shooting? > > (I did use the camera-selected AF points some during our Alaska cruise > and got limited benefit from that; can't imagine getting any benefit from > trying to select AF points while the bird is moving.) > -- > 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. -- 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.
