I am of the opinion that a good manual focus screen is invaluable
because AF just sucks under those circumstances. Too bad Pentax no
longer makes a good manual focus screen.
On 2/28/2017 4:22 PM, Stanley Halpin 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
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