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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
12-06-2016, 04:57 PM
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You know that some camera have decent AF coverage at least:
And the feature to select the right AF point automatically isn't that new.
We now have drones that take photos all by themselves. Pro photographers already are in far far lower demand these day than 20-30 years ago despite the fact we use more and more images.
Reality is that in 10 years, a drone may get better shoot than a pro and that it will be 100% automated. The system will track, pan, select the subject all by itself... And the worse will be it will look much better than what a trained pro would achieve.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
11-27-2016, 06:13 AM
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I guess people are thinking of subject moving more eratically, faster and of wider appertures.
You are assuming your camera can accurately AF if you properly select the focus point and track for it. But you are still assuming the camera can properly AF. Why not ? And basically it mean that you don't trust the camera to change the AF point by itself as necessary.
Then try again with a manual focus, you'd also have to handle the focus yourself, of course. And this couldn't be the camera fault if that failed, isn't it? Still you are now using a camera that does it for you.
Tomorrow you may get a camera that would still get the right shoot even if you didn't perfectly follow the subject, if you didn't stop AF if there was an obstacle and so on. Once that day come, it will become the camera fault if the subject is not in focus, even if you didn't track it properly.
What I want to say, is all of this is relative. It is legitimate to want things that just works. Camera are more and more like that, and there nothing wrong with it.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
11-27-2016, 05:59 AM
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There 2-3 main difference to me between that era and now:
- Most people knowing nothing about photography can get sharp image without much effort. they fail when this is a difficult scene but people failed before too. Much more in fact.
- People are not afraid anymore to shoot many time because photos are virtually free. Before you'd be quite limited by the price, so you couldn't train that much and you wouldn't try nearly as much.
- Gear performance is now much better. With latest sensor performance, you can typically get with consumer grade gear today what was difficult to get with top of the line very expensive pro gear back in time. I can get with K3 and 55-300 what required a 600 f/4 before.
As for photographers, you assume they want to have the difficulty, they want to fail, they want it to be hard, to be part of an elite. What many want is a great result, not just spend hours struggling to improve technique. Many people have buzy life and pro need to always deliver. The more the gear can do you don't have to do, the better. That allow you to concentrate on other things.
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