Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Again, what you require is accurate tracking in Continuous Focus Mode, believe me, the 51 point tracking system in the D300 is very good - I use it for wildlife and birds, both of which tends to be even more twitchy and unpredictable in their movements. Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Richard Man <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote: > ?! Believe me, the Shidara people are moving, jumping, leaping, and > flying. Without the IS, there's no way I can shoot the 35-100 at 1/20th of > a > second, at F2, at ISO1000. IS compensates the camera's movement. You can > set > it to do IS for horizontal only for panning shots if that's what you want. > > At 02:09 PM 4/15/2008, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > > > Which is why I rarely use IS, since most of my targets are indeed > > moving. I was in a bar with my wife and son tonight, and was shooting > > at ISO 800 with the 1.4 25mm PanaLeica. No IS, but with that ISO and > > lens combination I was getting shutter speeds of 1/30 or 1/60, which > > is fine. > > > > Nathan > > > > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please > use richard at imagecraft.com) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >