Originally posted by PDL ... I pick what is in focus - not the camera. When I bought my K10D - that is the first thing I did with it - even before I set the time and date, add into that it has a dedicated AF button --- sweet.
Well, even if you have auto-focus linked to pressing the shutter button half way,
you still control what's in focus. You've just decided that you want to focus on whatever point you've set as the focus point, and you want that to happen when you press the shutter. I do use spot focusing almost exclusively.
I like
the idea of uncoupling shutter and focus. And for many types of shooting it might work great. But when I am shooting sports, I simply don't have time to separate the focusing task from the shooting task. Sometimes I scarcely have time to press the shutter.
There's nothing evil or lazy about using auto-focus. It's a part of the camera's feature set. And in my experience, given that the K10D doesn't have an old-fashioned split-screen focusing system, manual focus often is
less accurate than auto-focus. One of the things I like most about the K10D is having all three of the focus mode buttons on the outside of the camera. I switch quite a bit from AF-S to AF-C to MF. Works for me.
Will