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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
01-07-2014, 04:25 PM
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Go slow with the focus ring. It's easy to overshoot and miss. Practice for a while with something that doesn't move and you'll get the hang of it.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
11-25-2013, 11:52 PM
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For sports, I used AF with the 50-135 while the SDM still worked, but the little bit I do now, I find that MF is still workable for me. It's a matter of practice, and having changed the viewfinder focus screen to an LL-60 and adding the Pentax 1.3x viewfinder add on. I do miss the 35 mm pentaprisms.
Pre-focus also works quite well for sports such as baseball and softball. Focus on the batter position and wait for the ball to be pitched. After a while you get to know the shutter lag and the ball is near the bat.
One thing I do, a standard practice with rifles, is to shoot with both eyes open. Some never learn this trick, but my left eye sees the whole field and the action that is going on while the right eye sees only what the camera sees. This takes quite a bit of practice, but once you have it, life is good.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
11-25-2013, 10:29 AM
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RRStuff you have the timing down perfectly. When I was stringing sports for a weekly, I used an original Pentax (first six months' production) and preset 135/3.5 (the lens is in the recent acquisitions thread last few days) for the first few years. I graduated to a film KX and M 135/3.5 when the shutters gave out on the original, then to an SF-1. My eye was getting too much winder thumb damage. Film was usually Tri-X (issued by the paper to us menials).
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