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.

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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
>>
>>
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>> Bruce
>>
>>
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