Ray Sachs
Legend
- Location
- Not too far from Philly
- Name
- you should be able to figure it out...
We had our first street fairs of the summer this past weekend - our town has all sorts of these things from now into October. I did some street shooting with my Coolpix A, but I blew it and accidentally set the aperture to f22 and there were only a few shots even worth thinking about processing. But I also brought the 180mm f2.8 (non-D version), which I bought used for just under $400 several months ago, and did some longer lens shooting. A few shots are musicians who weren't really moving but the other stuff involved skateboarders doing tricks and kids hauling butt down a zipline and spinning like dervishes on a ride that used to be called the "orbitron" (which always, for no good reason at all, always reminds me of the "orgasmatron" from Woody Allen's "Sleeper" movie of yore).
I don't shoot a lot of action or use tracking AF very much and I know this is supposed to be a real weak point of the Df, but it sure seems good to me. I got a very high rate of keepers and the stuff I missed mostly seemed down to user error, where I just never found the subject well enough to let the camera lock on. So for my purposes, I guess I have to say the tracking AF is more than good enough for my purposes. Even with this ancient screw-drive AF lens. I mostly use MF glass anyway, so I guess all auto-focus sort of feels like magic to me these days, tracking AF even more-so... I've never had a camera before that could do this type of tracking auto-focus so easily...
Super Sunday Skateboards by Ray, on Flickr
Super Sunday Skateboards by Ray, on Flickr
Super Sunday Skateboards by Ray, on Flickr
Super Sunday Bands by Ray, on Flickr
Super Sunday Bands by Ray, on Flickr
Super Sunday Bands by Ray, on Flickr
Super Sunday Zip Line by Ray, on Flickr
Super Sunday Zip Line by Ray, on Flickr
Super Sunday Spinning ride by Ray, on Flickr
I don't shoot a lot of action or use tracking AF very much and I know this is supposed to be a real weak point of the Df, but it sure seems good to me. I got a very high rate of keepers and the stuff I missed mostly seemed down to user error, where I just never found the subject well enough to let the camera lock on. So for my purposes, I guess I have to say the tracking AF is more than good enough for my purposes. Even with this ancient screw-drive AF lens. I mostly use MF glass anyway, so I guess all auto-focus sort of feels like magic to me these days, tracking AF even more-so... I've never had a camera before that could do this type of tracking auto-focus so easily...