Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: > > At 10:36 AM 5/3/99 -0700, you wrote: > >Let's just say your at a ball game (football, baseball, etc.) The runner is > >off and headed in your direction at about 40 mph, with AF focus tracking I > > All I need is one picture of a guy running 40 mph and I'll make lots of > money! :-) > > If you can find a 100-400 2.8 zoom AF lens out there, I'll grant you that > baseball can be done well with AF. > > And I can't help wonder how great photos were taken in sporting events by > zone focusing with a telephoto lens. > > I can tell you. 0 > > That's ZERO. > > Have you ever heard of follow focus? Good sports shooters follow athletes > with their eyes. (And in fact, the best focus on the athlete's eyes). And > in fact, I can tell you that even at sporting events, when the subject is > in a crowd, AF can screw up as many pictures as it can save. > > Eric Welch > St. Joseph, MO > http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > > Perspective is in the eye of the beholder. I assumed he meant the BALL going 40 not the runner, just a typo! And who says you have to use some monster lens? Haven't great baseball shots been done with more reasonable optics? Are these guys afraid of getting hit by a foul ball? What ever happened to getting in there with the action? I can visualize clearly a photographer with every empire. Did they used to let photographers in closer? This whole thing sounds like Astronomical high speed pocket pool. Mark Rabiner Don't confuse me with reality