Duxford on Saturday was my first outing with a digital camera having made the move from 35mm. Camera is a Nikon D70 and it was used with a Nikon 70-300ED-D lens. I spent the afternoon, (in between showers!), experimenting with different settings, etc, and rattled off about 200 pics. On downloading to PC I was disappointed to see that quite a few appeared slightly out of focus.
Now here’s the Question!
I know there are many of you out there also using Nikon D70 cameras so which focusing modes do you use, please?
(I was using AF-C, continuous servo, and dynamic area mode. All images were shot at 200asa, shutter priority at 1/200 for props or 1/500ish for jets and saved as large, fine jpegs.)
Any advice would be much appreciated!
My personal experience, if it helps…..
Firstly, your not alone, its a common problem. Continuous or predictive AF is only so good, and it will not always be sharp. Some of the answer is technique, and thats about panning. Any slight lack of fluid panning will cause slight blur. The other way to get that shot is to put the camera on multiple drive, so that you have a chance of capturing at least one shot of a pass. At this weekends show for example, I took 10 shots of the Hurricane (UP W), on a banking pass. Out of the 10, only two were in focus. Yes, it does use a lot of memory, but at least you get the shot.
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