Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Harrison Mcclary wrote: > If you want to learn to follow focus go to a highway with a lot of film and > a long lens and photograph cars...following focusing on them as they > approach. After a few days of this you will see a large improvement in your > abilities. You'll also notice the regular traffic has slowed down, and the odd car nosediving as the brakes are jammed on! I'm with Harrison on the benefits of an autofocus sensor free viewfinder. You get a better composed shot when the whole screen is a focus sensor. Since I've been using the F5, my soccer action shots are often poorly composed, although generally well focussed. The F5 is supposed to hand autofocus tracking from the initial pickup sensor to the others as the action moves across the screen. Works about half the time for me, so I tend to just stick to the middle sensor. Also, having learned focus tracking with a Leica, turing the lens clockwise to focus closer, I cannot make the mental adjustment to do it the other way with a Nikon. It's like it's imprinted. Regards Rick (mental agility? who needs it!) Dykstra