Hi Stan, Are you using single-point focus? I can usually slip around branches to shoot a bird in the bush if I carefully place the focus point on the bird’s head. With multi-point focus, the camera will always lock onto whatever is in the foreground.
Paul > On Feb 28, 2017, at 4:22 PM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> On Feb 28, 2017, at 3:58 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> … I just went through the photos of one of the bands from this weekend, >> having shot a bit with the 80-200 on the K-3, with wider primes on the K-1 >> that night, and was reminded of just how well the K-3 can focus on >> microphones. >> > > Common Mergansers swimming/fishing on the river by our house a couple of days > ago. I grabbed the K-1 + 70-200/2.8, carefully slipped outside and did a few > snappies without spooking them. Then I heard the unmistakable sound of a > Belted Kingfisher. Finally spotted it through a gap in the bushes. I got a > wonderful in focus shot of the bushes. If you knew what to look for you could > see the out of focus Kingfisher further back. > > Canon at one point had an AF mechanism based on the position/direction of > your eyeball as you looked through the viewfinder - a guy who worked for me > had one, was quite proud of owning such advanced technology. Which, he > admitted, didn’t work very well. But that notion needs to be revisited. > > stan > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
