People who don't like AF don't have it/have little or no experience with it/have used
poor versions of it.
People who don't like digital don't have it/have little or no experience with it/have
used poor versions of it.
There's at least a two stop difference in handheld useable shutter speeds between good
and bad SLRs.
BR
Pål Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Still, it can't be about the AF as manual focusing was no better. His camera could be
>out of alignment and/or the vibration issue. There really is a huge difference
>between the Z-1p and the MZ-S. I have sharp images shout out of a car window with the
>MZ-S at 1/60s with a 600mm lens. About 50% of the images are sharp. With the Z-1p I
>couldn't shoot anything slower than 1/250s under the same circumstances and get even
>one sharp image.>Yesterday I was out shooting fox puppies again and I managed frame
>filling shot with the 600mm and not so frame filling shots with the 150-300 on my
>645NII. Without AF, I could only have the shots where the animals were still; this
>doesn't happen often with small foxes! AF is truly helpful and being without it under
>such situations isn't really an option in my opninion and virtually everyone who
>shoots wild-life have converted to AF long ago because it works. I don't use AF for
>anything else. Luckily, all my AF lenses are great manual focus lenses as well. My AF
>cameras are fantastic manual focus cameras. The 645NII is the best manual focusing
>camera I've ever used. It isn't really about one thing or the other: it is about
>using the tool when it makes a difference. I don't find AF helpful at all when using
>hyperfocal focusing for landscapes but it is bloody useful for moving
>wild-life!>>Pål>>>>
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