On Nov 7, 2010, at 1:39 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Paul, do you have any photos where Grace is sliding down the hmmm, I don't > know how this thing is called - when you climb up and then slide down to the > ground? I'd like to see that K-5 manages to AFC (new English word?!) > mid-motion?
All of the pics on the hill are mid motion, as are those on the swing and tire. Those on the hill are very rapid motion, right toward camera. The K-5 was able to lock focus accurately most of the time in both C and S modes. Paul > > Boris > > On 11/7/2010 12:51 AM, P N Stenquist wrote: >> The sun warmed things up a bit this afternoon so Grace and I went to the >> park. I shot a number of action pics. The K-5 seemed to be able to lock >> in good focus on 7 to 8 tries out of 10. That's considerably better than >> the K-7, which was somewhat better than the K20D. It didn't nail every >> shot perfectly -- some included pretty violent motion right at the >> camera -- but it never left me in the lurch. It always locked in. >> Results for spot and continuous were similar. Perhaps a slightly higher >> percentage of misses with continuous. But operator error comes into play >> here as well, and the sample is still relatively small. But I'm pleased. >> >> The first eight pics in this folder are from today. All are action, >> except the one of Grace sitting on the rail. A noteworthy achievement: >> she tried to sled down the astroturf hill standing up. First time. >> Almost made it. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=643396 >> > > > -- > 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.
