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I went out to test tracking yesterday. I have so many tack sharp photos of seagulls flying, I don't know what to do with them. For a sample sequence, go to this link, hit Slideshow.

https://picasaweb.google.com/bonhommed/20131103#

I used the DA*300 f/4. Settings were AF-C, auto-select AF (27 points), SR off, TAv mode (1/1500s, f5.6). ISO in this set varied from 280 to 400.
 
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SR off ?
 
What I don't understand is tracking for Pentax is crazy good in the K3 yet on-line reviewers are luke warm ?

Why don't they see what you , me Mike etc are seeing.?
 
ASR45 said:
SR off ?
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With the K20D I found BIF photos were sharper with SR disabled, so that's how I set my K-3. I did not test with SR activated, but that would be something to try, along with a number of other settings that need exploring:

Custom Menu item. Parameter - Setting I used

16. 1st frame action in AF-C - Auto

17. Action in AF-C Continuous - Focus Priority

18. Hold AF status - Medium

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Dan
 
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Those shots are very encouraging. As for SR off, I would think that SR is not needed for tracking with 1/1500 sec shutter. That would give the CPU slightly fewer things to crunch while it has plenty of other things to do.

Perhaps other on-line reviewers are not really very skilled at BIFs. I always check the photo history of anyone who is making gear comments. I ignore anyone without a history of posting good shots. Dan has a very good record in this regard, so I definitely am listening to him now.

LPA
 
Sorry, corrected link: https://picasaweb.google.com/bonhommed/K3BIF#, and a couple of shots for those who don't want to see the slideshow:



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Dan
 
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audiobomber said:
ASR45 said:
SR off ?
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With the K20D I found BIF photos were sharper with SR disabled, so that's how I set my K-3. I did not test with SR activated, but that would be something to try, along with a number of other settings that need exploring:

Custom Menu item. Parameter - Setting I used

16. 1st frame action in AF-C - Auto

17. Action in AF-C Continuous - Focus Priority

18. Hold AF status - Medium

Got ya. :D
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Nice capture, thanks for sharing and it seems the tracking is working nice in your hands.
 
lpammann said:
Those shots are very encouraging. As for SR off, I would think that SR is not needed for tracking with 1/1500 sec shutter. That would give the CPU slightly fewer things to crunch while it has plenty of other things to do.

Perhaps other on-line reviewers are not really very skilled at BIFs. I always check the photo history of anyone who is making gear comments. I ignore anyone without a history of posting good shots. Dan has a very good record in this regard, so I definitely am listening to him now.

LPA
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Thank you, thank you very much. :-)

Seriously, I am loving this camera. I sent a K-5 because it was back-focussing and because it wasn't enough of an improvement over my existing K20D and K-x. I don't feel that way at all about the K-3. It easily eclipses anything I've used.
 
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soheil said:
Nice capture, thanks for sharing and it seems the tracking is working nice in your hands.
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Thanks Soheil. The camera performed very well, but there may be more available than I'm getting out of it. Some of the settings were foreign to me, I just guessed at what might work. One thing I know for sure, I need focus priority. I can't use OOF shots, I'd rather not have them at all.

There's a setting I haven't even found in the camera yet; Expanded AF area. I had it disabled according to DCU5. We need some discourse on all these new settings, what works, what doesn't, and when.
 
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