And to end the FEI KL Grand Prix at the Putra Stadium Bukit Jalil, 23rd November 2007 – some bandwidth-eating animations!
Jump and land.
Tracked with the Minolta 70-210mm F4 beercan and Minolta 200mm F2.8G HS APO. The 200mm is amazingly fast, easily the fastest screw-drive lens in the A-mount – it could be out of focus as the horse is about to jump, and I could lock focus on it at the jump!
Now you may ask, wouldn’t the Nikon D90 be better suited for capturing such videos?
No.
It’s manual focus only in video mode, so you’ll have a hard time as the horses will run around the field and you’ll have to continuously refocus and track at the same, a quite daunting task. So daunting, I haven’t even done it myself!
Well, I’d wait for what Sony and Olympus would offer for video – they seem to be the smartest when implementing something. After all, Sony has the fastest Quick AF Live View with Olympus being second with their contrast-detect AF, which is loads faster than what Nikon and Canon have done so far.
I agree. If I wanted to shoot movies, I get a panasonic HD videocam. The D90 seems to be trying to create a new niche market
Nice burst shots!
I like # 3, jumped 3 times! haha damn funny…
How do you lock focus with a normal lens?
anyway u got it wrong for my profile pic. its a 100mm 2.8 macro! hahaaa
dreamingArtemis: Of course, the videocam probably has a 6x crop factor and much deeper DOF… but I’m pretty sure somebody will work out an autofocusing variant!
Ewin: Oh I meant ‘get into focus’. As in, the camera knows it’s in focus. But if you want to lock focus, use AF-S.
Oooh, the poisonous 100mm F2.8 Macro!