Eric, all photos seem to be focused properly in line with my experience
with K-5.
I've seen a few where it would seem that the focus was way behind the
real subject of the photograph, although under the light and aperture
you used, the DOF kind of saved the day. It would be my consistent
experience with K-5 (K-7 before it, K10D before K-7 and *istD before all
of them :-) ), that camera would tend to cease every opportunity to
focus on a contrasty object behind the one what I was trying to get in
focus should the contrasty object fall within the boundary of the active
focus point.
In principle, having well shimmed Katz Eye or Canon ee-S focusing
screen, such a mistake could be seen at shoot time and circumstances
permitting, corrected, but I kind of gave up on this. I mean - I don't
like the notion of having serious eye-ache in the evening after the day
of shooting similar to yours. Thus I try to take several shots of each
motif and don't come expecting that it will always focus where I want it
to.
Boris
On 11/10/2013 8:58 PM, Eric Weir wrote:
Took my K-5 with my new [used] DA 50-200/4-5.6 ED WR lens to the
state cross-country championship yesterday. I’m over my hang-up about
getting manual focus down before thinking about autofocus. The
results were mixed because autofocus is auto only so far. There are
still things to be learned, technique to be develop. E.g., I can see
that in some of the images the subject is not sharp while the
background is. I will be learning about where the camera focuses and
paying more attention to what I have it focus on.
The light was perfect. I was able to shoot at 400 and didn’t have any
noise to correct for. Most of my processing was cropping to put the
subject more clearly in the frame.
This is the gallery I put up for the team I’ve been following.
Nothing great and some not very good, but a great improvement for me
with this subject matter. Comments more than welcome.
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/eeweir/10781314504/in/set-72157637520908245>
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA [email protected]
"It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each
class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits."
- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
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