I'm also not sure how AF-A automatically decides between AF-S & AF-C but I'd guess it uses information other than from the AF system. For example in auto-scene mode it could choose AF-C if it detects a "sports" scene, or AF-S for "landscape". What it does in program mode etc I've no idea.
On 3 November 2013 13:33, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Eric. > > Page not found. > However, I knew right where my wife's K-x manual was, did a quick look at > page 115. The language is very similar to what is in the K-3 manual WRT AF-A. > Except that AF-A is the default on the K-x. > > I am intrigued by this function. Not because it is something I had been > hoping for. Rather, I am trying to figure out why they would have such a > setting. How, in actual practice, I would gain anything from using this that > I wouldn't have using AF-C. There must be a reason it is there, but I just > don't get it. > > I may play a bit with the K-x later and see how it operates . . . > > stan > > On Nov 3, 2013, at 6:08 AM, Eric Featherstone wrote: > >> On 2 November 2013 17:09, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> p45 Three (3!) AF modes: AF-S, AF-C, and (drum roll please) AF-A >>>> which automagically switches between AF-S and AF-C depending on what >>>> is going on in front of the camera. Barely defined, not explained in >>>> any detail; I'll be intrigued to see how this works. >>> >>> >>> Now, this camera will have to have a seriously more powerful CPU... >> >> Not really, even the humble K-x had AF-A >> www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/support/man-pdf/k-x.pdf >> (Page 115 Setting the AF mode) >> >> -- >> Eric >> >> -- >> 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. -- Eric -- 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.
