Originally posted by audiobomber Not counting myself as a good photographer, but definitely spray-n-pray is not my style. I use my cameras on Low-Speed Continuous Shooting. Normally I take one shot and lift my finger off the shutter. If I'm getting something I want more of, I keep pressing and take a few more shots. I may use high speed continuous once a year, and the K20's three fps is OK with me.
True enough - but I think the OP mentioned that pictures of fast moving soccer games would be common, in which case I think the faster FPS is definitely a plus. I'm talking from my own experience, having 3 kids come through soccer games I used to take on average 3 rolls (72 exposures) per game, once I got a DSLR that count went up, a LOT, and I noticed that I got more of those better action shots that I "just missed" with film, and as I went from *ist to K10 I got even better pictures to chose from.
I also shoot a lot of the Osprey's fishing in front of my house, again, I find that the more frames I can take from the moment before it hits the water to the time it emerges with a fish, the better my chances are for a spectacular shot. I find that the K10 wants to refocus between frames on continuous, whereas the KX does not. Setting the focus to manual helped speed things up a bit, but it seemed whenever I did that I would have a bird hit the water closer to me and I'd end up not getting anything because I could not focus fast enough.