Hi AMS,

On 1/22/06, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> But I decided to try it again anyway.

Glad you did.

> And I hadn't realised just HOW MUCH my D30+75-300 sucks at autofocus.
> I'm getting *dramatically* better results with manual focusing (though
> I need more practice), even handheld. I don't know whether I should be
> blaming the body or the lens, so I'm heaping blame generously on both.

I found out the hard way when I was trying to photograph some
airplanes coming in to land at some airport. My 300D gets very
confused near the 300mm range.

> Manual focusing is apparently always more reliable, often much faster
> (no hunting back and forth), silent (no motor, no focus-confirmation
> beep), and drastically decreases the perceived shot-to-shot lag time.

I have found that hand+brain tends to learn pretty fast when I force it too :)

> Here are some recent photographs. As I said, I need more practice. But
> maybe there's some hope for me yet.

Those look pretty good!

> Thank you for the suggestion.

Glad to have been of help :)

-Gabin

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