I keep reading here...not sure why, I am not an action shooter......most all of my animals here will even freeze and pose for a shot if I promise them a treat.
He got a six pack of cold beer for this pose......
1/200 handheld (Great new SR!) f6.3 (wide open) Bigma 50-500 @ 500mm ISO 6400...no noise reduction applied.
A question...if the AF-C works well in Crop Mode....why not use it? You are not doing portrait work for action shots and are shooting a small area anyhow...seems the perfect mode to me?
As I hear the complaints, I keep going back to that thread by old Norm that made absolute sense. You can't get a Mercedes with all its features in a Kia and at a Kia price. Seems pretty simple to me.
If this is not the case, then we would have to assume that Ricoh chose to deprive us of super fast AF-C because they were too lazy to provide it and it had nothing to do with cost? That makes no sense to me, when the other features are superb...outstanding even!
Would you want to pay another $1K for the faster AF-C? How many would that price out of ownership? Would that be a good strategy?
Sometimes we have to be more realistic than what I see from some here. You can have it all....you just have to pay the price...it really is that simple. Be happy, this is a superb camera, enjoy it for all it can do...which for me is more than I will ever need.
Best Regards!