Originally posted by Wheatfield I believe they are, but it has to be recognized that regarding AF, they are still playing catch up to a couple of generations ago at the very least.
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But a couple of generation ago we were told the same story; Canon good enough to nail the shot every time. Pentax useless for weddings. Ie AF a couple of generation ago was good enough. If the K-new turns out having AF 99% as good as the best out there, it still won't be good enough for weddings. I'll bet we will have the same discussion 10 years from now, provided something AF faster than a Pentax, regardless how good the Pentax is.
The truth is that any AF system from any manufacturer today is good enough to nail the shot most of the time - with a large hit rate.
Andy Rouse, the wildlife photographer, managed to shoot dancing sifakas (a lemur) with a very high hit rate with early 90's Pentax AF. He claim in his book that it gave just as many keepers as his EOS-1......but still some can't make it work for weddings. Go figure...
It is blown out of propotion....
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Originally posted by ThorSanchez Maybe the KP and K-1ii are light years ahead of the K-3ii, but I've taken thousands of pictures of kids playing soccer with my K-3ii (and a 55-300PLM). I've worked long and hard on my technique. And I get maybe 60% in-focus rate using center spot focus. With any of the larger area focus modes the rate drops significantly. I'm reasonably sure that's well behind other manufacturers' marks. I'd really like the K-new to be able to help me take that next step.[COLOR=Silver].
You should improve you technique.The challenge is to keep the sensor at the right spot. In fact, I'm surprised you manage to keep the spot at the right place for fast moving subjects 60% of the time. My guess is that my success rate is less than 40%. But provided the sensor is at the right spot, the success rate is probably more than 90%....