Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gerry walden wrote: > Yesterday I had a solo photocall with Olympic diving silver medallist > Peter Waterfield at the local pool, and I have never shot diving before. > I was using a Nikon D1X and a 70-200 image stabilization lens shooting > at 640iso. Peter was diving for me from the 10 metre board, and I was > able to get about 6 shots in on 'continuous' mode before he hit the > water. Framing was fine (checked on LCD) and I was really pleased with > the way the shoot went until I saw the results on the computer - not a > single sharp shot amongst them!! The poolside shots, and the static > shots on the end of the board were razor sharp, but the action shots > were virtually unusable. Gerry, auto or manual focus? Could be reflections from the pool causing malfocus if AF. Peter Dzwig