Hi Jim,
I know isn´t really neccesary for taking good pictures but helps. I love
portrait and sometimes using my 50/1,2 with a Winder2 moving
around a subject with AE lock activated was a little bit tricky
becasue I tried to refocus each time but unfortunately sometimes
your pictures aren´t well focused. But only was my point of view.
Thank you for your coments.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Brokaw" <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 4:31 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Some of my last OM photos :-(
> Well, I'm not convinced that autofocus is -totally- necessary, but if I
have
> to use it I at least want it to be a fast system. I've collected several
> examples of autofocus, going back to early 1980's point-and-shoot systems,
> through more modern P&S, early and late digicams, the first Minolta Maxxum
> 7000 as well as a later Maxxum, and a couple of Canon EOS-IX with USM
> lenses. The faster the autofocus system the more satisfactory I have
> experienced it.
>
> However, I have also had good images result from using my OM's in 'active
> focusing' mode for portraits, as well as good success using OM's with
> pre-focused telephotos for fast moving motorcycle racing images. Unless
the
> AF system is *very* fast, for motorcycle pictures -in my opinion-
> pre-focusing in manual mode will bring better results. It also avoids
> exposure delay due to setting the focus, which varys by make but can be
> several tenths of a second in some cameras... not much good for fast
moving
> subjects.
>
> If you really want to try some fast portraits try a prefocused setup with
a
> Leica M, shutter lag of about 0.020 seconds... and you can watch the
> expression through the exposure. No autofocus, though.
> --
>
> Jim Brokaw
> OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
>
>
> on 5/5/04 9:33 AM, James N. McBride at jnmcbr@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >
> > No. We don't all "know" that high speed autofocus is needed to take
good
> > pictures. Sometimes it helps. Sometimes it doesn't. /jmac
> >
>
> before that Dave wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thank you for all your coments. OM system is superb but we all know
> > that high speed autofocus is needed for taking good pictures. Of course,
> > manual focus is lovely for macro work when depth of field is critical
but
> > you also have "pseudo manual focus" in E-1 that works very well.
> > I have sold everything. I decided to buy a complety new system.
> > I only kept my Metz flashes because SCA adapter for E-1 is planned by
> > Metz
> >
> > I´ll buy the camera next week becasue I don´t know what to do.
> > I´ve been looking many photographs and 14-54 seems to be a very fine
> > lens but I love 50-200. Maybe I´ll wait for 90/2 macro for next year.
> >
> > Skip, you were right. I am really impressed with E-system. It´s a lovely
> > tool for creating images.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > Dave
>
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