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Originally posted by danny09 Excellent focusing...awesome shots..tell us how did u do that?? what was the setting like?? looks a little low light to me?any quirks :-)
BIF ok with manual focus lens: Pentax SLR Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review
I wrote extensively on my method of doing manual focus for fast subject like BIF. Basically at 1/1500s or faster, SR off, M mode, F stop F5.6 or further stepped down to get better DoF and firing in burst while adjusting the focus continuously . When flying bird came within 50-80 ft I raised up the camera and fired already. The first second of shots will be blurry but I have to adjust the focus so by the 2nd or 3rd second the image has to be in focus. It is NOT a traditional focus trap method which enables you to take a sharp 1st image. But for Pentax (even with the fast AF of K20D) , the camera cannot cope with metering and AF in the 2nd shot. Basically it will hunt under AF. It takes a split second before the bird is gone out of sight.
Originally posted by borno Those are great daniel
Just when I was getting half decent at BIF with manual focus I got a 1.7x afa and have been getting lazy. Sometimes autofocus is frustrating but my eyes aren't so good anymore.
I am 59 and I wear glass as well. That 1.7x TC is an amazing piece of optics/mechanism
Originally posted by rfortson Wow, that's really impressive Daniel! I agree that it can't get much better than that. What was your "keeper" percentage? Surely the camera got fooled sometimes.
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Low keeper rate of course because of my method. But it is not film. Who cares?
With traditional method of manual or AF it would have been impossible to get the subsequent shots. All done with my short A300mmF4
Another series also from A300mm
Daniel , Toronto