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p.3 #18 · p.3 #18 · For Landscape (f8-11) is 24-70 II really better than f4 IS? | |
That make sense to me. I can see why the ability to AF accurately and quickly on your preferred camera would be an important consideration. (That fits with my strong belief that decisions about lenses are personal, subjective, and should reflect a larger range of performance characteristics than just resolution.)
The one time I frequently have to move rapidly between AF fully automatic modes and MF fully manual modes is when I do bird photography. Quite often I have to move very quickly from a high ISO, AIServo, aV mode, handheld shooting mode to dropping the camera onto a tripod, lowering ISO, turning off AF, and more. I've practiced this and can now do it pretty quickly. (I have to do the opposite as well when I'm set up for landscape and a critter suddenly appears.)
About framing cards, I hang with some folks who rely on them a great deal. I've tried, but I get by with a combination of holding my squarishly contorted hands up and/or looking though a viewfinder. (I like the ability of the 5DsR to show me my favorite 4:3 aspect ratio on the rear screen.)
We joke that one of my friends should go into business selling his framing cards. Enough people know him by name that some might purchase his used Cramer Framer cards, and he goes through them quickly. The second part of the joke is that we propose selling two models, one for portrait orientation photographs and one for landscape orientation...
claudefiddler wrote:
Dan
Standing in the living room camera in hand trying to imagine keeping the composition framed the way I want then magnifying where I want the plane of focus, making sure I can handhold at the given speed, yada yada yada. I need three hands to make it all work with manual focus. But again this isn't something I do. I use a tripod. Hell I still use a viewing card.
What I was trying to say is that if I wanted (or it was important to my photography) to handhold the sony/canon I'd look at a lens and or lens camera combo that was designed to work together in autofocus. I'm ASSUMING that the adapted canon lens is not a stellar performer in autofocus mode on the sony.
I'm also such a simpleton, that I would not want to switch back and forth between AF and MF modes. Call me paranoid, but I had a friend go through A7R11 with GM 24-70 hell when his camera would not reset to manual.
I'm glad to have found a system and methodology that works and is very simple. For the most part that is!...Show more →
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