Stephen Cook
Senior Member
Quote: "but what about the drunken holiday bar shoots at 2am? "
Your problem isn't the autofocus.
Your problem isn't the autofocus.
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Canon Flaming
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E. Blues
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For people of normal intellegence, perhaps, but mastery of a keyboard has eluded me so far. I have a closet full of keyboards, none of which have improved my typing skills. Maybe if I bought one of those crooked ones.......
Quite true, but to willingly buy a car with a known transmission problem, then keep it, and complain about it to everyone who will listen seems.........words fail me. I MUST work on my vocabulary.
I'm grateful for your kind and generous vote of confidence but, alas, it's undeserved. I repented of all thoughts of superiority the day I realized I was never going to be Irving Penn.
Better you than me. :+)--EB
Stephen Cook
Senior Member
Yeah, it's impossible to photograph something moving fast with a D30. This poor schmuck tried to do it, and look what happened!!!:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1005&message=2220395
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1005&message=2220395
DavidP #28649
Forum Pro
Only HE can do it. 
Actually, the real problem is when something is moving away from you or towards you, at relatively close distances.
That airplane was fairly far away, and moving mainly parallel to the camera -- a much easier job.
Actually, the real problem is when something is moving away from you or towards you, at relatively close distances.
That airplane was fairly far away, and moving mainly parallel to the camera -- a much easier job.
--The Unofficial Photographer of The Wilkinsons http://thewilkinsons.crosswinds.netPhotography -- just another word for compromise
Thomas Gardner
Veteran Member
Give the Sigma 15-30mm a consideration. At 15mm you have, according to my personal experiences, a very sharp f/3.5-f/4.5, fast zoom. At 15mm you have a 24mm f/3.5 lens. Considering the 1.6X multiplier, that's as good as it gets, unless you want to spend a whole bunch more for a 14mm prime wide angle.
Taxed and delivered, the lens was $512.00. If it doesn't work out for you, you can always give it to your cousid Eddie. You do have a cousin Eddie?
Love the D30 and if I ever have need to split hairs, I'll be sure to pick the D60 up. Until then, I'll wait for the X3 version to come out
fastlane65
Forum Enthusiast
I don't believe it. Must be a Photoshop trick. If i believe everything I've read in this forum, the D30 won't lock focus on a dead elephant in bright sunlight. I'll bet that plane is parked on the ground and shot from above (high roof - a helicopter would vibrate and ruin the D30's poor resolution.) Photoshop was used to erase the ground and put in the sky and smoke trail. Had to be.
Otherwise, Canon might actually be able to sell me one of these cameras....
BayAreaFoto.com
Leading Member
You are reasonable to expect the same AF performance as cheaper 35mm cameras from a $3K camera, but why stop at just the D30/D60? You could make the case that a $1000 P&S digicam should also has better AF than a $400 35mm camera since good AF is already a cheap and proven technology.
--TN http://www.photovideodisc.com
Thomas Gardner
Veteran Member
Loved the scarcasm
MikeA
Senior Member
No, no. We already know this is impossible. The D30 is lousy at focusing. In fact, I have learned that it doesn't focus at all -- this is an illusion perpetrated by devious marketing golems at Canon, which, by the way, Is Trying To Sell You Stuff. (Be VERY afraid.)
Ergo, you must have imagined this.
The problem is, anyone else looking at the photograph must also have imagined it.
Wait. I know what's happened. They're LYING! It was actually taken with a Dimage 7! No, wait! It's just a TRICK with unsharp masking! Phiii-iiiil! Make them STOP!
Ergo, you must have imagined this.
The problem is, anyone else looking at the photograph must also have imagined it.
Wait. I know what's happened. They're LYING! It was actually taken with a Dimage 7! No, wait! It's just a TRICK with unsharp masking! Phiii-iiiil! Make them STOP!
JohnM31499
Veteran Member
Good point, my wife's G2 should have better AF also. It doesn't annoy me so much with the G2 however, that camera only cost me $729
-John
MikeA
Senior Member
Sarcasm? SARCASM? No! Every word was positively oozing sincerity!
Well, ok, ok, maybe a few weren't.
Well, ok, ok, maybe a few weren't.
Loved the scarcasm
MikeA
Senior Member
Well...what BETTER time? And doesn't this put us in practice for being REALLY irritated about it when it finally ships? TRY to plan ahead, would you?
It IS mythic, too. Visualize some poor guy in a toga or something trying to push this gigantic circle of confusion up a steep hill. All the while, his liver is being plucked out piece by piece by some trolls, probably from a Nikon forum somewhere. Egad, it's just hideous. He gets to the top, and a diabolical Canon executive (probably played by Rowan Atkinson) smirks, says "oops!", and kicks him and his circle of confusion back down the hill. [laugh track]
A) that there are other people who have different photographic needs from them> >
--- Then get a camera that suits your needs. There are plenty of film cameras still available.
Then upgrade to a D60
Then don't upgrade.
It sounds like you need to purchase a 1D. If you wait for a middle ground you will be very unhappy for a long long time. There is no middle ground right now and there won't be as long as Canon wants to sell its top line pro models.
--Mike
--- Then get a camera that suits your needs. There are plenty of film cameras still available.
Then upgrade to a D60
Then don't upgrade.
It sounds like you need to purchase a 1D. If you wait for a middle ground you will be very unhappy for a long long time. There is no middle ground right now and there won't be as long as Canon wants to sell its top line pro models.
--Mike
Stephen Cook
Senior Member
I haven't shot much action, and am planning on getting more into it when I get a faster lense, but I was fairly happy with these shots I took of some of my cadets playing football:
28-135 IS. I've still got some work to do, but with a faster lense and some practice...
28-135 IS. I've still got some work to do, but with a faster lense and some practice...
Thomas Gardner
Veteran Member
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Sarcasm? SARCASM? No! Every word was positively oozing sincerity!
Well, ok, ok, maybe a few weren't.
MikeA
Senior Member
Your mouth's open.
hey don t go so far....I m burned....you see I was shooting a ski race today and it was windy!! I spoke with an eyedoctor from Thunder Bay and he said the daily paper switched from canon to nikon months ago because the canon digital they tried didn t work well.
All I can say is lotsa cheap used glass forsale out and about.
All I can say is lotsa cheap used glass forsale out and about.
Your mouth's open.
MikeA
Senior Member
That's interesting. My grocer mentioned to me the other day he knew this guy who switched from Nikon to Canon. No, wait. It wasn't the grocer, it was the guy at the auto-parts store.
Awesome.
E. Blues
Forum Enthusiast
Photographs? What do photographs have to do with anything?--EB
Michael Eckstein
Senior Member
Here's how the D30 Servo AF works.... you can take shots of birds on a dock walking as long as they are walking parralell to you and not towards or going away from you.
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