[LRflex] Re: Fairs, AF, manual, etc...
- From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@xxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:45:39 -0700
Hi Keith may I suggest.
>> Ted - I wonder, did you look at the last results that I posted? I bet
you didn't! (I'll send you some by e-mail, if you like!) Suffice it to say
that the Fuji shots you looked at aren't typical of my efforts... I intend
that the next lot will be with the R-E; but I have to say that I don't feel
as confident or comfortable with it as I do with the Canon, and it
inevitably shows in the results.<<<<
By all means send them along. However if you are not comfortable with the
R-e and feel much better with the Canon why not use the Canon? Using gear
one is uncomfortable with at any time means potential for un-necessary
screw-ups.
One of the reasons I've stuck with Leica all these many years... they feel
like extensions of my hands and eye. To switch mid stream to full Canon or
Nikon would probably have been a disaster.
ted
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Subject: [LRflex] Fairs, AF, manual, etc...
Doug H:
You said:
My objection to AF is that this focus-lock-recompose technique is unreliable
Depends, in my view, on the camera, and quality of the AF algorithm. I
did some experimenting with the Fuji yesterday (- at a fair, Ted!) and
discovered that it's nothing to do with the polariser directly. Longer
than about 135mm, it progressively misbehaves with moving subjects. I
suspect, but as yet don't know, that as the focal length increases, the
size of the focussing area increases as a percentage of the viewed
area. I tried shooting a model train, going quite slowly, by focussing
on a specific spot on the rails, then pressed the button when the engine
was over the spot. Result - it tried to refocus, got its knickers in a
twist, and got the shot totally out of focus! Yet, focussing on a
relatively static subject at 300 mm, it worked fine. I've noticed
another fault: if I use either aperture or shutter priority, it no
longer sets the exposure correctly! It was working correctly, so I
think something has gone very awry with it. I'm going to have to have
it sent back to Fuji.
My Canon EOS 600 is as much like the Fuji as mud is to honey, so far as
AF is concerned. The half-press technique locks the focus perfectly; if
it can't find correct focus, it won't let me take the photo until I've
corrected the focus point. I rarely get bad results with it, although I
did find it difficult with trying to take photos of flying birds, and I
much prefer the Novoflex for that.
I also tried out the Minilux yesterday in parallel. I thought it very
nice to use; instant focus, pleasant shutter release, very quiet. Does
anyone out there know anything about the Minilux's reported poor shutter
reliability? David?
Anyway, I'll post some of yesterday's Fuji shots as a comparison with
the last lot.
David - the pony racing: I think you did very well to get those shots.
At the BH fair a week ago, there was a slightly different form of
pony/chariot racing - a four-wheeled chariot hitched to two Shetlands!!
Great fun to watch, but I couldn't get a decent shot with the Fuji, they
were (a) too far away, and (b) it just refused to focus at all on a
quite quickly moving target. I rather wish that I'd had the Canon
instead! :-(
Ted - I wonder, did you look at the last results that I posted? I bet
you didn't! (I'll send you some by e-mail, if you like!) Suffice it to
say that the Fuji shots you looked at aren't typical of my efforts... I
intend that the next lot will be with the R-E; but I have to say that I
don't feel as confident or comfortable with it as I do with the Canon,
and it inevitably shows in the results.
Cheers for now
Keith L
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