starting a thread for helping myself and hopefully can be beneficial to others too
I recently tried out D700 over the wkend and as a second shooter for 2 friends' wedding. Luckily I volunteered as second shooter, no stress but I strived for my own excellence.
I know when I used big aperture from 1.8 to 3.2, I will suffer from OOF shots if I do re-composition after half shutter. So I choose my aperture wisely and used A mode with F3.2 to F7.1 the whole night. F4.5 and up, I am above to grab minimum sharpness.
However my issue is with 51 points. Switching from 3D matrix tracking to single point focus, I realised potentially I faced challenge myself. Was a D90 owner with 11 points to select from. As wedding is not a super fast action event, I used single point focus all the time. How do you FX users switch your focus point fast enough to catch up?
I was hesitating to switch back to use 11 or 21 points however. Not sure what was the potential benefits or if there is any.
I recently tried out D700 over the wkend and as a second shooter for 2 friends' wedding. Luckily I volunteered as second shooter, no stress but I strived for my own excellence.
I know when I used big aperture from 1.8 to 3.2, I will suffer from OOF shots if I do re-composition after half shutter. So I choose my aperture wisely and used A mode with F3.2 to F7.1 the whole night. F4.5 and up, I am above to grab minimum sharpness.
However my issue is with 51 points. Switching from 3D matrix tracking to single point focus, I realised potentially I faced challenge myself. Was a D90 owner with 11 points to select from. As wedding is not a super fast action event, I used single point focus all the time. How do you FX users switch your focus point fast enough to catch up?
I was hesitating to switch back to use 11 or 21 points however. Not sure what was the potential benefits or if there is any.