Christine, I've shot sports extensively. And I've used both methods. I'll switch back and forth. Also depended on the sport. Basketball I usually left the autofocus tied to the shutter button, but baseball I usually switched AF to the button on the back.
Good luck. ~Nick David Wright On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > Last Thursday night, I shot my 1st college basketball game knowing full well > I was entering new photographic territory. I put the camera on Continuous > Autofocus (which I often don't use) and happily blundered about. Upon > reflection, staying out of people's way was my greatest achievement that > night. :-). > > After looking at the 150 frames taken, I knew some study was in order and > have since read the chapters on "shooting sports," which I often skip when > reading photography books. > >> From Kobre's book: > > "Many sports shooters use their thumbs on [the autofocus button on the back > of the camera] for focusing while using their forefingers on the front > [shutter] button to take the picture. Holding the back focus button allows > the lens to continue focusing even when releasing the front shutter button > between shooting picture bursts" (108). > > Anybody here use this technique? I thought I might give it a try. > Cheers, Christine > > > > > > > > > -- > 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.
