Re: Pentax bashing (was Re: another 31 Limited question)

[Caveman]

The AF principle of use does not change in time. My understanding of it 
is that you have to overlay one of the AF sensor points on a point in 
the scene that you want to focus on. Then you can shoot away, or lock 
focus and recompose. Did you find it to work differently after 6 months 
? In the case of the "modern AF camera" that Bruce is using (the now 
obsolete F100), you have 5 such AF points, and that's easy to determine 
from the specs. I state again that if you need 6 months of looking 
through the viewfinder in order to get convinced that the F100 has 5 AF 
points, it's you that have a problem.

Herb Chong wrote:
Bruce's point was that it takes 6 months steady practice with a camera to be able react and fix a focusing problem in an AF camera without having to think about it. that fixing time is the same reaction time it takes for a trained pilot to see that one of the instrument lights isn't green that should be and know what's wrong. reading an unfamiliar camera's manual for 5 minutes and dismissing its AF as useless only means you have already made up your mind and reason has nothing to do with it.

Herb....
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Blakely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 11:13
Subject: Re: Pentax bashing (was Re: another 31 Limited question)



Clearly, you are not a pilot, and certainly you have no commercial or
military experience flight experience. It's ok. Not everyone has. Further,
it this has nothing to do with Pentax or photography. I was not commenting
on your views regarding the taking of photos, just making a side comment on
your very poor choice for an analogy.
Regards,
Bob...