Originally posted by clackers The z-axis is the most challenging for any camera, for sure, and I'm an amateur casually pointing my handheld K-1 with a Tamron 70-200 (not some expensive sports lens) at a runner, but here is an entire sequence, approaching me and then running past.
The ninth shot was cropped and processed as the 'keeper' for my social media. (Image stablilization was probably on, BTW!)
Nice sequence of shots. Were you shooting from the Live View or not? I heard/read that the Live View screen does a better job of tracking the subject as they run towards you than the OVF? I also can't really tell if all the shots are focused as I can't zoom in, but the one you chose to keep definitely looks sharp and spot on.
Originally posted by normhead I used AF.S.
Ok now this makes little sense to me lol. Maybe we are talking different language here but burst to me means using the actual continuous shooting mode (H, M or L) and therefore holding the shutter button down for the burst. If you have AF.S selected, the beginning shots of the burst (frames 1-3 say) would be the only ones in focus, the rest (as the subject comes closer to the camera) would be blurry as the focus point was 'locked' at the start of the burst, the only way to correct this is to then take the finger of the shutter and press again to pick a new focus point, but again if bursting the same would apply as before. The idea of doing a 23 burst and a subject coming towards you (with 100% focus ratio i.e. 23/23 in focus) would be to either use AF.S and manually refocus with AF.S every single shot (ie 23 shutter presses, and therefore not a 'burst'), or use AF.C so that as the subject approaches the camera the camera is refocusing between every shot (and therefore it's probably M or L setting used to give the camera enough time to refocus, that is if 100% of the 23 shots are in focus).