Paul Stenquist wrote:
Were you using single point focus with the K-1?
I was trying the select 9, which gives me about the area of the old
select 1 on previous cameras. I've also tried select-1 but would have
trouble because I can't reselect fast enough. I'm beginning to suspect
that the rule with autofocus is "whatever method you choose is wrong"
I was able to get a good hit rate shooting pans of cars Friday night with
single-point continuous focus. Of course it’s easy to predict where the subject
will be.
Not so much in Aikido. You often start out with two subjects coming
together, they will be together a bit, and then one will be thrown,
often in a seemingly random direction, only to come back shortly thereafter.
I screwed up some pics the next day at the farmer’s market when I forgot to
take the camera off continuous focus
I have not had good luck in the past with continuous focus. I do have
it set to "follow focus", whatever they call it in the menu.
and was reframing after getting focus. The camera, of course, refocused on a
different area because it was on continuous.
Paul
On Aug 21, 2016, at 7:09 PM, Larry Colen<[email protected]> wrote:
Sidali Selloum teaches Aikido in Algiers Algeria. After our dojo's chief
instructor book on Aikido was published, he started following her on facebook
and last year asked to visit so that he could train with her. He came back this
year for a few weeks and co-taught a couple of seminars at our dojo with her.
Here is a gallery of 44 photos from those two seminars, mostly taken with the
K-1
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157671575258190/
I hope you enjoy the photos, can comments on either specific photos or the
gallery in question are appreciated.
While the K-3 is no slouch in terms of photographic quality in challenging
light, even in crop mode, the base image quality of the K-1 dramatically
outshines that of the K-3. It seems that even in crop mode, the K-1 has a stop
or so better sensor performance than the K-3, when you can average down from
twice the sensor area, the difference between them grows.
The K-3 outperforms the K-1 in two categories, frame rate and buffer size.
Shooting the K-1 in crop mode will close some, but not all, of that gap.
In my brief experience with the D810, the K-1 still lags seriously behind in
autofocus speed, performance and sensor coverage. I have a lot of otherwise
excellent photos that are focused perfectly on the background, rather than the
subjects.
TLDR; The K-1 is an amazing camera, it is however not an amazing, or possibly
even a particularly good, sports camera.
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