Steve, Swimming meets are the worst... The light is bad. The contrast is low. And the water surface is impossible to focus on. I had lots of trouble using the PZ-1 at meets.
Regards, Bob S. > Let me mention a situation where I did have AF problems with the MZ-S. > Last night I was taking pictures of a swim meet. The pool area was dim > enough that I had to use my 50 at f1.4 to get 1/60 exposure time. (No > flashes allowed) There were a few shots when the camera would not fire > the shutter, since I had it on the AF-C setting. I figured that there > was no point in switching to AF-S since the shutter would fire but the > shot would be out of focus. I tried MF but I suspect that I'm going to > get out-of-focus shots. I realize that this is a terrible > condition for > AF. Any suggestions for the future?
