I went out about 20 minutes after sunset. Mostly heavy cloud cover, some patchy areas. So, fairly dark skies. I tried some (handheld) shots of the turkeys roosting in the tree outside our house. I much doubt if I got any thing useful, but I did learn that the K-3 will quickly achieve AF with the 60-250/4.0 even in very dark conditions.
stan On Nov 10, 2013, at 6:54 PM, Bill wrote: > On 10/11/2013 5:45 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> Great news, Bill! "Just works" and "The auto focus works under studio >> lights" are glorious music to my ears. Looks like you had a lovely >> studio session. >> >> That AF points in the wrong places seems to be universal. Nikon >> suffers from that too. > > It looks like in the Pentax implementation, they have tried to satisfy the > needs of the BIF clan, and I can see the 25 points combined with tracking and > AF point hand off to be an exceedingly nice feature for the birders. > Really, to keep me happy, another half dozen points per side would be > wonderful. > As is, the AF is such a huge improvement over anything I've seen from Pentax > that it seems rather petty to complain at all, but there you go. > Bruce, if you can afford to buy one of these things, do so. You won't be > unhappy with the purchase. If you can't afford it decide which of your > relatives you are going to sell into slavery. > > bill > > > -- > 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.
