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Posted by Rick Merrill on 05/22/07 19:30
Krazy Kanuck wrote:
> Hi....I recently did a shoot of belly dancers on stage under sometimes lower
> light and sometimes with bright spotlights.....I had my camera set in the
> auto-focus mode but with exposure set in the spotlight mode......The
> exposure was fine but I, of course noticed that there were times when the
> focus was "searching" a lot.....I would have gone manual focus, but I felt
> that I had my hands full just following the action as tight as I could, let
> alone be trying to adjust the focus all the time....
> What's the general consensus on this?(yeah like there'd be consensus<G>)
> Should I have used manual focus?
> Len
>
The best advice I ever got was to zoom in, fix the focus and keep my
distance to subject relatively constant. Otherwise the camera will see a
curtain in the backdrop and try to 'find' it or see a candle flame and
try to focus on that or see a slide show fade-over and try to follow that!
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