xtralight wrote:
It is possible to take pictures of fast moving children. There were sport photographers in the old days who were able to take action shots. It is just not as easy...
Try to take pictures at f1.4 in manual focus with fast, erratic moving children. You will have some good shots, but your rate of success will be lower than with a fast DSLR and good AF.
As two kids\' father, since I move to MF, I never look back. I am not having \'some\' good shots, I can guarantee you I have much higher success rater than AF. Because 80% of time, before I hit the shutter, I know it is in focus. The freedom of put my subject anywhere in frame is priceless and \'the\' moment is short, no time to mess up AF point with hand or center focus recompose at close distance.
MF is great with subject within known distance to you, manual is very fast and reliable to track small movement at that case, it is almost like motion capture.
I can tell for sure, once you manage MF well, most likely, you will do AF just fine. But not vise vasa. Once you are deep into MF, it is hard to AF only, they are compliment to each other, and each have trade off.
If you are professional portrait, kids, family, wedding photographer need take thousands photos per day, by all means have your Canikon ready, I must admit manual focus require skill and practice and consume a lot more brain/eye power.
Above cute girl case, it is perfect for manual focus with known distance and small movement. Joe did mis some shots in above. I won\'t use AF-C continuous fire the shutter so my keeper rater of course higher than AF, and at least 80% of my captures will be in focus in similar case, and I have a lot more freedom to compose. I know that based on my experience.
Some pictures (notice eyes can be anywhere in the frame)
They are all at f1.4 by Leica 35mm Manual lens and D700,(I just pick some from a set from my flickr) and none of them wait for you to capture.
I have tons of samples show my point, for 35,&50 MF is great for short distance, less so with longer lens. I will remove above photo to keep the thread theme until one day I can post some sample from this lens
Nov 21, 2013 at 01:54 AM
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