Originally posted by Jyrkira I don't how weddings are in your country, but in Finland when the bride comes in to the church she walks very slowly. It is part of the seremony here. Also all the other movements are quite slow. So maybe I need to say that I don't think there is a need for fast AF for weddings in Finland. At least in my experience both K200D and K-7 do it fine.
They move slowly here too, but the camera moves even slower.
The K7 will lock on eventually, but often by the time it gets around to making the shot, the shot I wanted is gone.
Unfortunately, if I try to predict how long it will take to make the shot, it often makes it faster than I was expecting.
Either way, it buggers up what I'm trying to do.
A few weddings ago I had managed to get the thing (K7) to AF well enough during the processional, only to have it stuff up during the hand-off.
The AF light was on, indicating it had achieved focus, then it froze, then the AF light started blinking.
By the time I got the AF switched off, the shot was gone.
I suspect that in a well sunlit venue, the AF
may be good enough, but in artificially lit churches that have rather dim light levels, I haven't found the K7 to be significantly more reliable than the K20, which I found to be not reliable at all.