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Selectable auto focus points
"With a camera with smaller coverage do others make use of them and in what way?" I use it very often when shooting wildlife to get the eye(s) as focus point especially when the subject is close up and nearly filling the frame. Works very well and quick with the K5IIs as it has the dedicated swit...
Posted by K30pete on 09/06/2016 - 21:56
Selectable auto focus points
Centre Point only for me, which works very well on the K-3. It's quick and effective, I don't think I would gain any speed or accuracy by using the other focus points. As an aside, since I've had the DA*300 and 1.4TC, I have noticed that the K-3 focusses much more reliably than the K-5iis using ...
Posted by davidstorm on 09/06/2016 - 22:21
Selectable auto focus points
Can't say about the K5lls/K3. But I think it's true of K5IIs/K1 noticed the difference with a K1/150-450+Pentax1.7x combination.
Posted by bforbes on 09/06/2016 - 22:41
Selectable auto focus points
Honestly, I don't get it; On my K3 II's and now the K1 I do pay due respect to the automation but increasingly I am finding it is getting more impractical; partiularly the current topic. I just spent a couple of days on Skomer and had modest success with BIF ie. Some nicely crisp well focussed B...
Posted by Daronl on 10/06/2016 - 01:14
Selectable auto focus points
I must say, I really do wish Pentax would release a camera for those owners who just don't want all the 'fluff'. At the same time I realise that everyone has different wants, so this just wouldn't work. I personally will never ever use the inbuilt HDR options. I won't use any of the JPEG in c...
Posted by richandfleur on 10/06/2016 - 01:55
Selectable auto focus points
I completely agree about BIF. I found it a challenge enough to get birds in trees hopping from branch to branch with the K3 let alone flying. Maybe the expanded selected point may work for BIF if you know your going right to left say and you select an expanded point on the left.
Posted by richardmills on 10/06/2016 - 09:32
Selectable auto focus points
Not sure on a K3, but I have good success on ether BIF or fast Jets with a K5iis using back button focussing with a central point. IMO, a technique worth practising and since I've started using it, the keeper rate has gone up 300%
Posted by Chrism8 on 10/06/2016 - 10:21
Selectable auto focus points
I was using back button focusing for a ages and really liked it but have gone back to using the shutter release and selecting focus points and not doing half press, so single press to focus and let the camera release the shutter when it's obtained focus. I like that way too now but that's only been ...
Posted by richardmills on 10/06/2016 - 10:33
Selectable auto focus points
Not sure on a K3, but I have good success on ether BIF or fast Jets with a K5iis using back button focussing with a central point. IMO, a technique worth practising and since I've started using it, the keeper rate has gone up 300% When using this technique do you set for AF.S or AF.C?
Posted by bforbes on 10/06/2016 - 10:36
Selectable auto focus points
Hi Barry, AF.C but the finger on the AF button over-rides the AF.C I think, as the camera continuously focusses with the AF button pressed, Then I just have a finger on the shutter release and the 2 work fine together, I think thee is a way of overriding the focussing on the shutter release s...
Posted by Chrism8 on 10/06/2016 - 10:55
Selectable auto focus points
Yeah, I use AF.C with shutter button AF disabled. Its there in the menus somewhere. I usually either select single point central AF or the 9 point expanded. For static subjects I do sometimes use the AF point above the centre point for focusing on the eye, even for wildlife.
Posted by Blythman on 10/06/2016 - 11:09
Selectable auto focus points
Hi Barry, AF.C but the finger on the AF button over-rides the AF.C I think, as the camera continuously focusses with the AF button pressed, Then I just have a finger on the shutter release and the 2 work fine together, I think thee is a way of overriding the focussing on the shutter release s...
Posted by bforbes on 10/06/2016 - 11:25
Selectable auto focus points
Hi Barrie, I use AF-C :-)
Posted by Chrism8 on 10/06/2016 - 11:30
Selectable auto focus points
Hi Barrie, I use AF-C :-) I thought you meant the AF button gave you continuous focus regardless of how the mode lever was set
Posted by bforbes on 10/06/2016 - 11:41
Selectable auto focus points
Ah, ok, no, set AF-C then a finger on the AF button on the back of the camera and another finger on the shutter release :D Can feel a little awkward until you get used to it
Posted by Chrism8 on 10/06/2016 - 11:48
Selectable auto focus points
That's my experience too but, the main issue I am trying to overcome is keeping the spot on a very small object flying very close at relative high speed. Yesterday on Skomer I found it easy to nail a Fast Flying Puffin from 60 metres but at 6 metres it is almost physically impossible. Between ...
Posted by Daronl on 10/06/2016 - 15:38
K5 4-way controller oddity ?
I rarely change the white balance but had occasion to do so today. Nothing happened. Nothing happened for any of the other four positions either. Live View and menu worked OK so I looked at the other settings. I rarely use selectable focus point either but this time I had had it on SEL for a one-of...
Posted by davidwozhere on 13/06/2016 - 18:14
K5 4-way controller oddity ?
That's how it works. I've in turn accidentally had select instead of centre spot in past so check top LCD by pressing left side AF mode button from time to time. IF you are currently in sel AF point mode the bottom right on back button (also card slot select) turns function back to allow WB etc.
Posted by wvbarnes on 13/06/2016 - 18:22
K5 4-way controller oddity ?
When you are in 'sel' the 4 way switch is changing the selected focus point so cannot perform it's other functions.
Posted by smudge on 13/06/2016 - 18:42
K5 4-way controller oddity ?
... IF you are currently in sel AF point mode the bottom right on back button (also card slot select) turns function back to allow WB etc. That sounds like the K-3. On the K-5 the OK button acts as the switch between the 4-way buttons selecting the focus point or the function menus when AF is set to...
Posted by GlynM on 13/06/2016 - 19:22
