My answer would be yes and I do so before I started with photography almost 2 years ago.
The trusted little Wacom Graphire 4 has been my friend next to the keyboard for almost 4 years now. She's getting a bit old now, some scratches on the surface and my finger prints embedded in the rubber grip of the pen tells me so.

Before photography I use her for some digital art work, 2D and 3D but I was too precise and ended up spending hours behind the PC perfecting things without any results.
I've many unfinished work on my harddisk, quite a shame really.
This was one of the last ones I was busy with a year ago and it's still in the same state.



I've used the tablet exclusively in there and now with my photos I use it a lot in combination with the burn and dodge tool, it's so handy and the result is much more subtle then when using the mouse.

So back to the question, how many of you use a tablet for photography?

Very strange Fred, hopefully it isn't much of a problem.

Second try, pushed the exposure a bit more but won't push it more myself.

Thank you and no we shouldn't do that.
We all used some other methods and the others pushed it more then I have, I did try to make it more bright but the colours would bleach out then. Shooting in RAW wouldn't have helped too much with that.

Gareth great job cloning out the man in blue.

the AF sensor also needs contrast, it will for example not lock on the blank walls here, might that have been the problem?
I also found that it helps when you manually put the focus nearly correct, it mostly snap on instantly.

That's what you get when your are dyslectic and English is not your first language.
I sometimes do think the camera/lens has a mind of his own though and in such it might have a ghost (soul)

Hunting is the word we are looking for.

Thank you Tim.
Yours isn't bad either but why did it coloured so strangely?

If it's waterfalls you want to shoot or other static objects you can use a tripod and take multiple photos and stack those photos in photo editing program and you create the illusion of a longer exposure.

Or else go their when light is low (cloudy days, sun rise/set).

Some amazing long exposure photos btw link

Fred that is an auto focus failure not a SDM one, SDM is simply the motor that drives the focus system of the lens, nothing more nothing less.

As for your problem, it's quite normal and it's called haunting.
The AF sensor needs contrast to see if the focus is "sharp" or not and it does not like low light since contrast will drop as well and it reads the light that reflects from the subject.
It simply is not able to see sometimes so it will miss the focus.

Might not have pushed it so much as the other ones but what do you think?




Neat image 6 & Lightroom 2.4

ps. cropping out the man in the blue shirt really helps the photos but didn't post that one for comparison reasons.