Doh autocorrect. "I agree about the focus points being too central"
Paul via phone > On Oct 10, 2017, at 5:08 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'll bet your cards are slow. I shoot football, including action sequences > and have no buffer problems. I use Sandisk Extreme Pro 64 gig cards. And set > the camera to record on both simultaneously. I agree about the focus pound > before BH too central but it's not a big problem with sports work in that > focus on the chest or arm of the principal player is usually spot on for the > face as well, which is less visible given the helmet and face guard. > > Paul via phone > >> On Oct 10, 2017, at 4:39 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> In many many ways the K-1 is an amazing camera. If all I did was portraits, >> landscapes and still lifes it would be damn near unbeatable, especially for >> the price. >> >> However, for action photography, it can really suck donkey balls. The >> focusing is a huge improvement over the K-3ii, but the focus points don't >> cover nearly enough of the screen, especially if you want to place critical >> compositional elements at the "third points". Despite the improvements over >> the K-3, focus speed is still way too slow, especially compared to when I've >> shot a friend's Nikon 810. >> >> My biggest gripe is the bus speed. Did they really think that people would >> buy a full frame camera and always shoot JPEGs? I was photographing dance >> competitions this weekend. Things happen fast, unpredictably, and often in >> rapid succession, particularly when there is more than one couple dancing at >> a time. After about a minute or two the buffer will fill up, and then take >> something like five minutes to empty. Once it fills up, it takes something >> like 30 seconds before it's ready to shoot again, and I have no idea of >> whether there's room in the buffer or not. I just have to press the shutter >> and wonder whether it's not locking focus, or just still emptying the buffer. >> >> Gah! Every time I try to shoot action, I'm tempted to switch to Nikon. >> Unfortunately, there's about 15,000 reasons why I can't. >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc >> >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
