Well, it takes less than a second to press the green button to reassure
yourself that the right shutter speed is selected and take the picture.
Thats pretty quick. It really does work well, you should get a *D and
try it, its amazingly painless. Certainly alot quicker than several
other Pentax cameras I have. If your in a STILL photography type of
situation, this is plenty of time. If you've been shooting for a while,
you generally know when the shutter speed is not going to be where you
want it, so you change the aperture and re-meter to end up in the right
range.
rg
J. C. O'Connell wrote:
NO - AE wasn't developed just for high frame
rate "burst" photograhy, its for high changing
lighting condtions photography. I even specifically
said AE isnt needed much for sports/ACTION.
But you are now somehow deducing that
mean anything not sports or action means AE isnt
needed at all. Don't confuse a non active slow subjects
with quick changing photographic conditions
mainly quick changing LIGHTING.
jco
-----Original Message-----
From: Gonz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: How Pentax Could Survive (was:Re: Pentax K 2.5/200mm)
J. C. O'Connell wrote:
ON a rare occasion I agree with you. Get out
the champange! And put this in the record books. Sports/ACTION is one
area where AF is indispensable, DSLR is almost indispensable and AE
helps somewhat but not nearly as much as digital and AF.
I don't do sports but someone would have to be
brain dead to attempt sports/ACTION now without
DSLR and AF. I couldn't find if I.S was used
but with long lenses and action I would consider
that as mandatory as AF and DSLR too.
Disclaimer: Sports/ACTION is only a very narrow portion
of the entire photographic realm. These things are
not needed or even desireable for a whole bunch of other types of
photography...
And there is one other caveat to be aware of and that
is we are talking STILL photography. If you carry
Yup, and thats precisely why the green button solution is ok. We are
talking STILL photography. You have time to compose, press the green
button, and shoot.
rg
Sports/Action still photography too far with frame
rates and such you end up being a cinemaphotographer
in essence which is ok with me but there might
be better techniques/equipment for that beyond the realm
of PENTAX and still cameras...
jco
-----Original Message-----
From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:35 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: How Pentax Could Survive (was:Re: Pentax K 2.5/200mm)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Pentax Could Survive (was:Re: Pentax K 2.5/200mm)
I dont agree with you in that the content of the images depend on the
technology. In my view the lack of content is just more evident when
the technology is better.
You haven't tried to shoot sports in the way it is being done these
days.
It's completely technology dependant now.
Or:
http://www.pbase.com/sjbousson/the_steal
Is a pretty technology dependant set of pictures. I doubt if a manual
focus,
manual exposure, manual film advance camera would be capable of
getting this
series.
William Robb
