Originally posted by Wheatfield Apparently a Belgian Shepherd can run faster than an English Setter. They can certainly outrun a K10 in continuous AF mode with a 77mm LTD lens attached.
I think the AF will keep up with my Rottie, but they aren't the fastest runners either.
Of course a Terveren has to be able to run circles around a herd of cattle, a Setter only has to outrun a dying partridge.
Seriously Rene, go to whatever passes for a real camera store in your neck of the woods and take a top level camera out for a spin. It will open your eyes regarding the AF performance of what we are using.
Or, be a happy fanboy.
To put it politely, I have a corvette that can't keep up w/ my lambroghini.
Actually I have neither but the point holds.
Honestly you just bought the wrong camera, or right brand, wrong time.
And you have to entertain the notion that your friend may (please take this as constructive criticism) just be better at tracking then you are.
I like to shoot pictures of mushrooms so what do I know...
If a $1000 camera was equal to a 2000-5000 one the high priced ones couldn't survive for any length of time.
The fact that Pentax themselves announced that they would concentrate on the sensor at the expense of AF may have tipped you off... can't remember where I heard this and my sentence is only a paraphrase of the actual statement...
AND some lenses are faster than others. Just based on the inherent contrast characteristics of the lens.