Knowing the quality of your work, that's what I guessed. It seems to be the best way to operate in most cases, particularly with portraits where you want to nail those eyes. Paul On Nov 21, 2006, at 7:40 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote:
> Under normal circumstances, I manually focus when I can and then > switch to specific sensor when I need to. Only in a few cases do I > let the camera pick the sensor, but I wanted to see how well the new > one worked. > > -- > Best regards, > Bruce > > > Tuesday, November 21, 2006, 3:48:16 PM, you wrote: > > PS> I like the picture of the boy. Nice shot. On the pic of the > girl in > PS> the helmet, it may have focused on the helmet, which is > PS> understandable. For this type of pic, I always select my own > point or > PS> use manual focus, as I'm sure you do under normal circumstances. > PS> Paul > PS> On Nov 21, 2006, at 6:15 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote: > >>> Couple more images. The first one I thought I better check out >>> how my >>> big zoom works with the K10D. I put the camera on continous AF and >>> let the camera pick the AF point. It seemed a bit better than the >>> *istD, but I'll need to do more tests to be sure of performance. I >>> can say the lens seemed to work fine with the body - no noticeable >>> problems. >>> >>> Pentax K10D, Sigma 100-300/4 EX @ 300mm, Handheld SR on >>> Continuous AF - auto sensor mode >>> ISO 400, 1/500 sec @ f/4 >>> >>> http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_3990.htm >>> >>> >>> >>> This test was to see how the AF360FGZ works with the camera for >>> daylight fill. This is something that I do quite a bit with the >>> *istD, so wanted to see how it worked. In this shot, the fill is >>> just >>> a little strong - probably another half stop under would have been >>> better. Setting the body for the flash mode is now auto-sensed >>> by the >>> body. On the *istD, you had to tell the body to use HiSpeed >>> (shutter >>> sync) as well as the flash. The K10D just senses the flash >>> setting - >>> less to think about. >>> >>> Pentax K10D, FA 50/1.4, Handheld >>> ISO 400 , 1/125 sec @ f/8, manual focus >>> AF360FGZ flash, -1.5 fill compensation >>> >>> http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_4027.htm >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> Bruce >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
