Originally posted by mikeSF It's a good review and love the Tony Northrup remark in the comments.
So do I ... that's funny.
What is it with these 'experts' and their inability to shoot moving objects?
Conveniently, he did not dare state his methods, but perhaps there is a hint when he says: "I could predictably tell where the camera would lose autofocus as I panned across a closer jump while following a rider and horse.".
That sounds to me like he didn't have the skills and just set it to Auto.
If you have 33 points, the closest object falling under *any* of the points is what gets the focus. He should have picked a focus point and tracked the rider.
If he was using back button focus, he also could have released while that obstacle was in the way. If as an unskilled hobbyist I can do that with footballers moving across my line of sight, why can't he for a stationary hurdle?
I took this with a K-30 and Tamron 70-200, much lower cost and tech than what he had available to him. The horses and bulls were in full gallop both laterally and the Z direction, and I had plenty of poles in between - that's not a vignette at the bottom of the pic, that's fencing.