I am younger than Paul and Bill, but I very often use AF (although not "blindly").
AF is not just for that grab-and-shoot quick shot. It has proven to be useful in many situations. (And D-FA lenses which focus can be easily manually adjusted are very convenient in this regard!) Try to shoot quick dances without AF. It is possible and every so often (especially in low-light situation), I switch to MF, but it is so much better to do it with AF, when the light is sufficient. I remember, the first time I was shooting dances 16 years ago (I had a MF SLR at that point), - when a (professional) photographer next to me was suprised how I can do that without an AF. Igor On Aug 3, 2009, at 3:31 PM, 272yb at comcast.net wrote: > Auto Focus is just for that quick shot, where you just grab your > camera and shoot.We as photographers should not be using auto focus. > If you look at my photos on my page on Photo.net all my photos are > shot with manual focus except the photos that say test under them, > that were shot with the 70 - 200 mm Simga lens. Now I understand > when someone's eyes are not as good as they used to be, you will > tend to use auto focus, but they do make contact lens and the like > to improve your eyes. We as photographers and people are getting > lazy and not using our brains.Sorry if I offended anyone on the > list. I will admit there is times when I try the auto focus, but I > go back to manual focus all the time...Joe > www.photo.net/photos/pjjdxn > -- 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.
